Title: Caca dolce
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.
Subjects: American Authors, Biography, Artists, Authors, american, Authors, biography, Artists, united states, Artists, biography, Family, American essays, Interpersonal relations
Places: United States
People: Chelsea Martin (1986-)
Time periods: 21st century