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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 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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Memoir, Essays, Privilege, Drug Abuse, Girlhood, Queer women, Women authors, Authors, biography, Racially mixed people, Adult children of drug addicts, Fathers and daughters, Women, united states, biography, Lesbians, biography, LGBTQ biography and memoir, New York Times reviewed, Childhood and youth, American Women authors, Biography, Racially mixed women, Lesbian authors, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal MemoirsShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
2024, Headline Publishing Group
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir
2020, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir
2019, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir
Mar 05, 2019, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Sep 03, 2019, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Audible Studios on Brilliance
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