TY  - BOOK
AU  - Díaz,Jaquira
TI  - Ordinary girls: a memoir 
SN  - 9781616209131
AV  - PS3604.I176 Z46 2019
U1  - 818/.603B 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chapel Hill, North Carolina
PB  - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
KW  - Díaz, Jaquira
KW  - Lesbian authors
KW  - Puerto Rico
KW  - Biography
KW  - Racially mixed women
KW  - Families
KW  - Mentally ill women
KW  - Substance abuse
KW  - Family
KW  - sears
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -