Flash count diary : menopause and the vindication of natural life
Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle -- of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a "true" Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother's rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too "faas" or too "quiet" or too "bold" or too "soft." Set in "Little Jamaica," Toronto's Eglinton West neighbourhood, Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold of adulthood, from elementary school to high school graduation, in these twelve interconnected stories. We see her on a visit to Jamaica, startled by the sight of a severed pig's head in her great aunt's freezer; in junior high, the victim of a devastating prank by her closest friends; and as a teenager in and out of her grandmother's house, trying to cope with the ongoing battles between her unyielding grandparents.
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Women > Psychology. Menopause. Sexism. |
- ISBN: 9780374156114
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Physical Description
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228 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm - Edition First Edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Night on fire -- Free Lolita -- The animals -- Mind at the end of its tether -- Demigirl in kemmering -- Lessons in demonology -- The old monkey -- Nocturnal hunter -- Hole in my heart -- The whale wins -- Home waters -- Notes -- Acknowledgments. |