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Ordinary girls : a memoir / Jaquira Díaz.

Díaz, Jaquira, (author.).

Summary:

"Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a lesbian biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781616209131 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1616209135 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 321 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Girl hood -- Part 1: Madre Patria. Origin story ; El caserío ; La otra ; Home is a place -- Part 2a; Monstru. Monster story ; Candy girl ; Ordinary girls ; Fourteen, or how to be a juvenile delinquent ;- Girls, monsters -- Part 3: Familia. Beach city ; Battle stations ; Secrets ; Mother, mercy -- Part 4: Regresando. Returning ; Ordinary girls.
Subject: Díaz, Jaquira > Childhood and youth.
Díaz, Jaquira > Family.
Lesbian authors > Puerto Rico > Biography.
Racially mixed women > Puerto Rico > Biography.
Families > Puerto Rico.
Mentally ill women.
Substance abuse.
Genre: Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at York County Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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