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Caca dolce: essays from a lowbrow life

By Martin , Chelsea

Book information

Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781593766825, 9781593766771, 1593766777
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1976206 bytes)
Edition
First Soft Skull edition
Pages
210 pages ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

Funny, candid, and searchingly self-aware, 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.

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