Ebook: Long live the tribe of fatherless girls: a memoir

Intro; Praise for Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Contents; Epigraph; A Note from the Author; Preface; Part I. The Feels of Love; Uncle Nuke; Pencil; Why You Like It; Even the Dogs; Just One Look Is Worth a Thousand Words; Womanly Things; Show Name; Cry Baby; Bugs; The Lizard; Chicken & Stars; Rewired; The Feels of Love; Part II. The Greeter; Cousin Cindy; Can I Pet Your Back?; Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls; How to Survive in Boca Raton; The Greeter; People Like Them; Brothers; Big Hair, Big Hearts; I'm Still Here; Another Word for Creep;"Frank and funny and powerful and surprising. An utterly gorgeous debut."--Lauren GroffOne of the most anticipated books of 2019-Electric Literature, Entertainment Weekly, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, The Millions, Hyphen, Lit Hub, Nylon, The AV Club, The Advocate, The Rumpus, The Week, Books are Magic, Reading Women, AlmaAcclaimed 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. 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. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i 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 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.