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Nola Face

By Brooke Champagne

Nola Face

By Brooke Champagne

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
194
Release Date:
2024-04-01
Publication Date:
2024-04-01
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0820366536
ISBN13:
9780820366531
Weight:
252 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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