Real American: A Memoir

by Julie Lythcott-Haims

Paperback, 2018

Status

Available

Call number

305.8 L

Publication

St. Martin's Griffin (2018), Edition: Reprint, 288 pages

Barcode

A 2530

Description

"Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called microaggressions, in addition to blunt-force insults, can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. Real American expresses also, through Lythcott-Haims's path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered "the other." -- From Book jacket.

ISBN

1250296730 / 9781250296733
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