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Nola Face: A Latina's Life in the Big Easy

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Availability:In StockContributor:Brooke ChampagneSeries:Crux: The Georgia Literary NonfictionPublish date:2024-04-01Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820366531ISBN-10:820366536UPC:9780820366531Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Personal Memoirs, Dysfunctional FamiliesBook Topic:Hispanic & LatinoSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCH6AAVEBP

Early in Brooke Champagne's childhood, her Ecuadorian grandmother Lala (half bruja, half santa) strictly circumscribed the girl's present and future: become beautiful but know precisely when to use it; rationalize in English but love in God's first language, the superior Spanish; and if you must write, Dios help you, at least make a subject of me. Champagne's betrayal of these confounding dictates began before they were even spoken, and she soon started both writing and hiding the truth about whom she was becoming.

The hilarious, heartbreaking essays in this collection trace the evolutions of this girlhood of competing languages, ethnicities, aesthetics, politics, and class constraints against the backdrop of a boozy New Orleans upbringing. In these essays, Champagne and members of her family love poorly and hate well, whip and get whipped, pray and curse in two languages, steal from The Man and give to themselves, kiss where it hurts, poke where it hurts worse, and keep and spill each other's secrets--first face-to-face, then on the page. They believe and doubt and reckon with the stories they tell about themselves and where they come from, finally becoming most human, most alive, in their connections to one another.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820366531ISBN-10:820366536UPC:9780820366531Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Personal Memoirs, Dysfunctional FamiliesBook Topic:Hispanic & LatinoSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCH6AAVEBP
BROOKE CHAMPAGNE is an assistant professor in the MFA program at the University of Alabama. She was awarded the inaugural William Bradley Prize for the Essay, and her work has been selected as notable in several editions of the Best American Essays anthology series. She is the recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship in Prose. She lives in Northport, Alabama, with her husband and children.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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