Bibliograph

Ordinary girls, a memoir, Jaquira Díaz

Type

Label

Ordinary girls, a memoir, Jaquira Díaz

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ordinary girls

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1112425001

Responsibility statement

Jaquira Díaz

Sub title

a memoir

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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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

Classification