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We Were Witches - Paperback

by Ariel Gore
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ariel GorePublish date:2017-09-05Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Amethyst EditionsISBN-13:9781558614338ISBN-10:1558614338UPC:9781558614338Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Women, Coming of Age, LGBTQ+Book Topic:LesbianSize:7.90 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCX88QKW6G

This inspirational "magic-infused narrative . . . is a moving account of a young writer and mother striving to claim her own agency and find her voice" (Publishers Weekly).

Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself and talks her way into college. But once she's there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject.

Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, We Were Witches documents the survival of a demonized single lesbian mother as she's beset by custody disputes, homophobia, and America's ever-present obsession with shaming unconventional women into passive citizenship.

But even as the narrator struggles to graduate, a question uncomfortably lingers: If you're dealing with precarious parenthood, queer identity, and debt, what is the true narrative shape of your experience?
Language:EnglishPublisher:Amethyst EditionsISBN-13:9781558614338ISBN-10:1558614338UPC:9781558614338Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Women, Coming of Age, LGBTQ+Book Topic:LesbianSize:7.90 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCX88QKW6G
Ariel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is a graduate of Mills College and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood.

Her memoir, Atlas of the Human Heart, was a 2004 finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won the LAMBDA Literary Award in 2010. She has taught at The Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon, at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. She currently teaches online at Ariel Gore's School for Wayward Writers.
Publisher: Amethyst Editions

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