Ordinary girls : a memoir / Jaquira Díaz.

By:

Díaz, Jaquira

Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 321 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781616209131
1616209135

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

818/.603 B 23
928/.1

LOC classification:

PS3604.I176 Z46 2019

Contents:

Girl hood -- Origin story -- El casero -- 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.

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.

List(s) this item appears in: Mental Health | Pride Month Selections

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 2 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	PS3604 .I176 Z46 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Item is in display case (ask at desk to check out)		33039001232775

"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.