Caca dolce
Subtitle: essays from a lowbrow life
By: Chelsea Martin
Edition: First Soft Skull edition.
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781593766771
Subjects: American Authors; Biography; Artists
Description: This essay collection tells the story of Chelsea Martin's coming of age as an artist. We are with Chelsea as an eleven-year-old atheist, trying to will an alien visitation to her neighborhood; fighting with her stepfather and grappling with a Tourette's diagnosis as she becomes a teenager; falling under the sway of frenemies and crushes in high school; going into debt to afford what might be a meaningless education at an expensive art college; navigating the messy process of falling in love with a close friend; and struggling for independence from her emotionally manipulative father and from the family and friends in the dead-end California town that has defined her upbringing. This is a book about relationships, class, art, sex, money, and family--and about growing up weird, and poor, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.--Adapted from book flap.