Real American
A Memoir
Edición de la obra Real American
| Autor | Julie Lythcott-Haims |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Holt & Company, Henry |
| Fecha de publicación | 2017 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 192 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781250137753 |
| Número de Cutter | L996r |
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 "micro" aggressions 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.".