Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Madden, T Kira

• Book ID: 110454037
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781635571851

✦ Synopsis

"Frank and funny and powerful and surprising. An utterly gorgeous debut . "-Lauren Groff
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**One of the most anticipated books of 2019 --Electric Literature, Entertainment Weekly, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed , The Millions, Hyphen, Lit Hub, Nylon, The AV Club, The Advocate, The Rumpus
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_**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...