Displaying 1 of 1 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. Description: 321 pages ; 22 cm Publication Year: 2019 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. Target Audience Note: Adult Brodart. Adult Brodart. 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. Family. Notes: Library Journal, August 01, 2019 Kirkus Reviews, September 01, 2019 Booklist, September 01, 2019 Publishers Weekly, June 24, 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. LCCN: 2019009593 ISBN: 9781616209131 1616209135 Current Holds: 0 Local Availability:0 (of 1) System Availability:3 (of 4) Control Number: 1980987 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
