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Fruit Punch - audiobook
Fruit Punch - audiobook
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An arresting and one-of-a-kind memoir about the alternately exultant and harrowing trip growing up as a Black child desperate to create a clear reality for herself in this countryWritten in a distinctive voice and filled with personality, humor, and pathos, Fruit Punch is a memoir unlike any other, from a one-of-a-kind millennial talent. Growing up in Dallas, Texas, in the nineties and early 2000s, Kendra Allen had a complicated, loving, and intense family life filled with desire and community but also undercurrents of violence and turmoil. a We equate suffering to perseverance and misinterpret the weight of shame,a she writes. As she makes her way through a world of obscureness, Kendra finds herself slowly discovering outlets to help navigate growing up and against the expected performance of being a young Black woman in the Southa "a complex interplay of race, class, and gender that proves to be ever-shifting ground.Fruit Punch touches on everything from questions of beauty and how we form concepts of ourselvesa "as a small rebellion, young Kendra scratched a hole into every pair of stockings she was forced to weara "to what it means to grow up in her great uncles Southern Baptist churcha "with rules including a No uncrossed anklesa and a No questions.a Inflected by a powerful sense of place and touched by poetry, Fruit Punch is a stunning achievementa "a memoir born of love and endurance, fight or flight, and what it means to be a witness, from a blisteringly honest and observant voice.
An arresting and one-of-a-kind memoir about the alternately exultant and harrowing trip growing up as a Black child desperate to create a clear reality for herself in this countryWritten in a distinctive voice and filled with personality, humor, and pathos, Fruit Punch is a memoir unlike any other, from a one-of-a-kind millennial talent. Growing up in Dallas, Texas, in the nineties and early 2000s, Kendra Allen had a complicated, loving, and intense family life filled with desire and community but also undercurrents of violence and turmoil. a We equate suffering to perseverance and misinterpret the weight of shame,a she writes. As she makes her way through a world of obscureness, Kendra finds herself slowly discovering outlets to help navigate growing up and against the expected performance of being a young Black woman in the Southa "a complex interplay of race, class, and gender that proves to be ever-shifting ground.Fruit Punch touches on everything from questions of beauty and how we form concepts of ourselvesa "as a small rebellion, young Kendra scratched a hole into every pair of stockings she was forced to weara "to what it means to grow up in her great uncles Southern Baptist churcha "with rules including a No uncrossed anklesa and a No questions.a Inflected by a powerful sense of place and touched by poetry, Fruit Punch is a stunning achievementa "a memoir born of love and endurance, fight or flight, and what it means to be a witness, from a blisteringly honest and observant voice.
| Kategoria: | Obcojęzyczne |
| Język: | Angielski |
| Zabezpieczenie: | brak |
| ISBN: | 978-0-06-304854-6 |
