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A cup of water under my bed : a memoir

Title: A cup of water under my bed : a memoir / Daisy Hernández.
Author: Hernández, Daisy
Publication: Boston : Beacon Press, [2014]

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Description

xii, 185 pages; 23 cm

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"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Lesbian fiction.

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.

Call Number

JFD 15-2789

ISBN

9780807014486 (hardback : alkaline paper)
0807014486 (hardback : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2014000820

OCLC

867765629

Author

Hernández, Daisy, author.

Title

A cup of water under my bed : a memoir / Daisy Hernández.

Publisher

Boston : Beacon Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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JFD 15-2789

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