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2019

Format:	Book
Author:	Díaz, Jaquira, author.
Title:	Ordinary girls : a memoir / Jaquira Díaz.

Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019. ©2019
Description:	321 pages ; 22 cm

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.
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.

Subjects:	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.

ISBN:	9781616209131 hardcover 1616209135 hardcover
Control Number:	1817861

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