{"id":57955,"date":"2019-04-20T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57955"},"modified":"2019-04-20T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T01:00:34","slug":"long-live-the-tribe-of-fatherless-girls-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57955","title":{"rendered":"Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, A Memoir<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Bloomsbury<\/a>
\n2019-03-05
\n336 pages
\n16 B&W illustrations throughout
\n5 1\/2″ x 8 1\/4″
\nHardback ISBN: 9781635571851
\nEPUB eBook ISBN: 9781635571868<\/p>\n

T Kira Madden<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Long<\/a><\/p>\n

Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida<\/a>, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime<\/a>, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n

As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls.<\/p>\n

With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai’i<\/a> to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls<\/em> is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It’s a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,666,8,17,20],"tags":[26800,29723,3707,911,29722],"class_list":["post-57955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-gaylesbian","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-bloomsbury","tag-boca-raton","tag-florida","tag-hawaii","tag-t-kira-madden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57957,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57955\/revisions\/57957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}