A cup of water under my bed : a memoir
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Published
Boston : Beacon Press, [2014].
Format
Book
ISBN
9780807014486 (hardback : alkaline paper), 0807014486 (hardback : alkaline paper), 9780807062920, 0807062928
Status
Springfield Main Library - Adult
920.009268 HERNANDE
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920.009268 HERNANDE
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Springfield Brightwood Branch - Adult
920.009268 HERNANDE
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920.009268 HERNANDE
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Springfield Mason Square Branch - Adult
920.009268 HERNANDE
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Springfield Main Library - Adult | 920.009268 HERNANDE | Available |
Springfield Brightwood Branch - Adult | 920.009268 HERNANDE | Available |
Springfield Mason Square Branch - Adult | 920.009268 HERNANDE | Available |
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Granby Free Public Library - General | 920 Her | Available |
Lancaster Thayer Memorial Library - Nonfiction | 920.009 HERNANDEZ | Available |
Monson Free Library - Nonfiction | 920 B-H HERNANDEZ Cup | Available |
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Published
Boston : Beacon Press, [2014].
Physical Desc
xii, 185 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780807014486 (hardback : alkaline paper), 0807014486 (hardback : alkaline paper), 9780807062920, 0807062928
Notes
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"--,Provided by publisher.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Bisexual women -- United States -- Biography.
Colombian Americans -- Biography.
Cuban Americans -- Biography.
Hernández, Daisy -- Family.
Hernández, Daisy.
Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Women -- New Jersey -- Biography.
Women journalists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Young women -- Family relationships -- United States.
Colombian Americans -- Biography.
Cuban Americans -- Biography.
Hernández, Daisy -- Family.
Hernández, Daisy.
Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Women -- New Jersey -- Biography.
Women journalists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Young women -- Family relationships -- United States.
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