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Ordinary girls : a memoir Cover Image Book Book

Ordinary girls : a memoir

Díaz, Jaquira (author.).

Summary: "Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer 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"--

Record details

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

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note: Girl hood -- Origin story -- El caserío -- La otra -- Home is a place -- Monster story -- Candy girl -- Ordinary girls -- Fourteen, or how to be a juvenile delinquent -- Girls, monsters -- Beach city -- Battle stations -- Secrets -- Mother, mercy -- Returning -- Ordinary girls.

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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
Families
Lesbian authors
Mentally ill women
Racially mixed women
Substance abuse
Puerto Rico
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biography.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library.

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