Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life Contributor(s): Martin, Chelsea (Author) |
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ISBN: 1593766777 ISBN-13: 9781593766771 Publisher: Soft Skull OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Humor | Form - Essays |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2017009907 |
Lexile Measure: 1020 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.55 lbs) 210 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An "enchanting" memoir of an artist in search of herself: "A sure hit for fans of Sara Benincasa's Agorafabulous! and Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl" (Booklist, starred review).Caca Dolce is the "funny, candid, and bracingly self-aware" story of Chelsea Martin's coming of age as an artist (The Rumpus). We're with the author of cult novels Mickey and Even Though I Don't Miss You as an eleven-year-old atheist, trying to will an alien visitation to her neighborhood; fighting with her stepfather and grappling with a Tourette's diagnosis as she becomes a teenager; falling under the sway of frenemies and crushes in high school; going into debt to afford what might be a meaningless education at an expensive art college; navigating the messy process of falling in love with a close friend; and struggling for independence from her emotionally manipulative father and from the family and friends in the dead-end California town that has defined her upbringing. A book about relationships, class, art, sex, money, family, and growing up weird and poor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Casa Dolce is "a wild ride of a memoir, and a true glimpse into the mind of an artist as she's figuring out what life is all about" (Kristin Iversen, Nylon). |
Contributor Bio(s): Martin, Chelsea: - Chelsea Martin is the author of Everything Was Fine Until Whatever (2009); The Really Funny Thing About Apathy (2010); Even Though I Don't Miss You (2013), named one of the Best Indie Books of 2013 by Dazed magazine; and Mickey (2016). Her work has appeared in publications including the Poetry Foundation, Hobart, Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter, Vice, and Catapult, and chosen as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016. She is a comic artist and illustrator and the creative director of Universal Error. She holds a BFA from California College of the Arts and currently lives in Spokane, Washington. |