A cup of water under my bed [electronic resource] : a memoir / Daisy Hernández.
2014
CT275.H5862453 A3 2014eb
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A cup of water under my bed [electronic resource] : a memoir / Daisy Hernández.
Author
Hernández, Daisy.
ISBN
9780807014493 electronic book
0807014494 electronic book
0807014494 electronic book
Publication Details
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 185 pages)
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CT275.H5862453 A3 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
920.009268/7291073
Summary
"It's 1980. Ronald Reagan has been elected president, John Lennon has been shot, and a little girl in New Jersey has been hauled off to English classes. Her teachers and parents and tias are expecting her to become white--like the Italians. This is the opening to A cup of water under my bed, the memoir of one Colombian-Cuban daughter's rebellions and negotiations with the women who raised her and the world that wanted to fit her into a cubbyhole. From language acquisition to coming out as bisexual to arriving as a reporting intern at the New York Times as the paper is rocked by its biggest plagiarism scandal, Daisy Hernandez chronicles what the women in her community taught her about race, sex, money, and love. This is a memoir about the private nexus of sexuality, immigration, race and class issues, but it is ultimately a daughter's cuento of how to take the lessons from home and shape them into a new, queer life"-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Condemned
One. Before Love, Memory
Stories She Tells Us
The Candy Dish
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
Two. Even If I Kiss a Woman
Queer Narratives
Que India
Three. Only Ricos Have Credit
My Father's Hands
Blackout
Despues.
One. Before Love, Memory
Stories She Tells Us
The Candy Dish
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
Two. Even If I Kiss a Woman
Queer Narratives
Que India
Three. Only Ricos Have Credit
My Father's Hands
Blackout
Despues.