Long live the tribe of fatherless girls :
Madden, T Kira,
Long live the tribe of fatherless girls : a memoir / T Kira Madden. - xviii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"As a child in Florida, T Kira Madden lived a life of extravagance--from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoes, she had plenty to envy. But beneath the surface, life in "the rat's mouth" of Boca Raton was dangerous. Left to her own devices as both parents battled drug addiction, Kira navigated the perils of coming of age too quickly, and without guidance--oblivious parents and misguided babysitters at home, tormentors at school, sexual predators at the mall, and the confused, often destructive, desperately loving friendship of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and moving, lyrical prose, and spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the nip and tuck rooms of 1990s Florida to the present-day struggle of a young woman in a culture of harassment, [this] is the story of families both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful" --
9781635571851 1635571855
2018016519
Madden, T Kira,--Childhood and youth.
Women authors, American--Biography
Racially mixed women--United States--Biography.
Lesbian authors--United States--Biography.
Adult children of drug addicts--United States--Biography.
Fathers and daughters--United States--Biography.
Autobiographies
PS3613.A28357 / Z46 2018
814/.6
Long live the tribe of fatherless girls : a memoir / T Kira Madden. - xviii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"As a child in Florida, T Kira Madden lived a life of extravagance--from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoes, she had plenty to envy. But beneath the surface, life in "the rat's mouth" of Boca Raton was dangerous. Left to her own devices as both parents battled drug addiction, Kira navigated the perils of coming of age too quickly, and without guidance--oblivious parents and misguided babysitters at home, tormentors at school, sexual predators at the mall, and the confused, often destructive, desperately loving friendship of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and moving, lyrical prose, and spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the nip and tuck rooms of 1990s Florida to the present-day struggle of a young woman in a culture of harassment, [this] is the story of families both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful" --
9781635571851 1635571855
2018016519
Madden, T Kira,--Childhood and youth.
Women authors, American--Biography
Racially mixed women--United States--Biography.
Lesbian authors--United States--Biography.
Adult children of drug addicts--United States--Biography.
Fathers and daughters--United States--Biography.
Autobiographies
PS3613.A28357 / Z46 2018
814/.6