Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood Contributor(s): Hart, Melissa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1580052940 ISBN-13: 9781580052948 Publisher: Seal Press (CA) OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Hispanic & Latino |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2009007525 |
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.56" W x 8.08" (0.64 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Torn between the high socioeconomic status of her father and the bohemian lifestyle of her mother, Melissa Hart tells a compelling story of contradiction in this coming-of-age memoir. Set in 1970s Southern California, Gringais the story of a young girl conflicted by two extremes--life with her mother, who leaves her father to begin a lesbian relationship, taking Hart and her two siblings along, and her father's white-bread well-to-do security, which is predictable and stable and boring. She tells of her mom's new life in a Hispanic neighborhood of Oxnard, California, and how these new surroundings begin to positively shape Hart herself. Ultimately, however, a judge rules that being raised by two women is "unnatural" and grants her father primary custody. |