Long Live The Tribe Of Fatherless Girls
A Memoir
T. Kira Madden
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight.
As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls.
With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai’i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It’s a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful.
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Details
| ISBN | 978-1635574760 |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publication Date | 13-Mar-20 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Format | Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 336 |
| Notes | Illustrated edition |
| LoC Classification | PS3613.A28357 .Z46 2018 |
| Rating | Good |
| Subject | Adult Children Of Drug Addicts – Biography. – United States; Fathers And Daughters – Biography. – United States; Lesbian Authors – Biography. – United States; Racially Mixed Women – Biography. – United States; Women authors, American – Biography |
| BookID | 256543 |
