A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hern?ndez Paperback Book

Description: A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernández "The PEN Literary Award-winning author "writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love" about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street)"-- FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "I wish this book had been available for me when I was making my foolish way in my perilous 20s, but how glorious that its available now." -Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango StreetA Colombian-Cuban daughters story of becoming her own person, finding herself in community, and building a new queer lifeThe PEN Literary Award-winning author "writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love" about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street).In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernandez chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you with pastries, while one tia bemoans that her niece is turning out to be "una india" instead of an American. Another auntie instructs that when two people are close, they are bound to become like una y mugre, fingernails and dirt, and that no, Daisys father is not godless. Hes simply praying to a candy dish that can be traced back to Africa.These lessons-rooted in womens experiences of migration, colonization, y carino-define in evocative detail what it means to grow up female in an immigrant home. In one story, Daisy sets out to defy the dictates of race and class that preoccupy her mother and tias, but dating women and transmen, and coming to identify as bisexual, leads her to unexpected questions. In another piece, NAFTA shuts local factories in her hometown on the outskirts of New York City, and she begins translating unemployment forms for her parents, moving between English and Spanish, as well as private and collective fears. In prose that is both memoir and commentary, Daisy reflects on reporting for the New York Times as the paper is rocked by the biggest plagiarism scandal in its history and plunged into debates about the role of race in the newsroom.A heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language, A Cup of Water Under My Bed is ultimately a daughters story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life. Author Biography Daisy Hernandez is the coeditorof Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Todays Feminism and the former editor of ColorLines magazine. She speaks at colleges and conferences about feminism, race, and media representations, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Ms. magazine, CultureStrike, In These Times, Bellingham Review, Fourth Genre, and Hunger Mountain, and on NPRs All Things Considered. In 2022, she won the PEN Literary Award for The Kissing Bug (Tin House). Table of Contents On Love: A Note for the Second EditionCondemnedONEBefore Love, MemoryStories She Tells UsThe Candy DishA Cup of Water Under My BedTWOEven If I Kiss a WomanQueer NarrativesQué IndiaTHREEOnly Ricos Have CreditMy Fathers HandsBlackoutDespuésAgradecimientos Review "Gorgeously written from start to finish."—Boston Globe"By the end of this beautiful book, Daisy Hernández, a queer American Latina, has threaded Spanish and English together to create an inimitable new language in a brave and brilliant negotiation of a multilingual world."—Los Angeles Review of Books"Hernández writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love."—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street Details ISBN0807017337 Author Daisy Hernández Pages 208 Publisher Beacon Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780807017333 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-09-17 Imprint Beacon Press Subtitle A Memoir Place of Publication Boston, MA Country of Publication United States DEWEY 920.0092687291073 Audience General US Release Date 2024-09-17 ISBN-10 0807017337 UK Release Date 2024-09-17 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161496120;

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