A cup of water under my bed
Subtitle: a memoir
By: by Daisy Hernández
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780807014486; 9780807062920
Subjects: Cuban Americans; Family; Young women; Biography; Family relationships; Social conditions; Bisexual women; Colombian Americans; Identity (Psychology); Women journalists; Women
Description: "It's 1980. Ronald Reagan has been elected president, John Lennon has been shot, and a little girl in New Jersey has been hauled off to English classes. Her teachers and parents and tias are expecting her to become white--like the Italians. This is the opening to A cup of water under my bed, the memoir of one Colombian-Cuban daughter's rebellions and negotiations with the women who raised her and the world that wanted to fit her into a cubbyhole. From language acquisition to coming out as bisexual to arriving as a reporting intern at the New York Times as the paper is rocked by its biggest plagiarism scandal, Daisy Hernandez chronicles what the women in her community taught her about race, sex, money, and love. This is a memoir about the private nexus of sexuality, immigration, race and class issues, but it is ultimately a daughter's cuento of how to take the lessons from home and shape them into a new, queer life"--
Table of contents: title: Condemned; title: One. Before Love, Memory; title: Stories She Tells Us; title: The Candy Dish; title: A Cup of Water Under My Bed; title: Two. Even If I Kiss a Woman; title: Queer Narratives; title: Que India; title: Three. Only Ricos Have Credit; title: My Father's Hands; title: Blackout; title: Despues.