Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

✍ Scribed by Madden, T Kira

• Book ID: 110204956
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2019
• 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*

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 Girlsis 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.