A Cup of Water Under My Bed
A Memoir
$38.99
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2024
Summary
“I wish this book had been available for me when I was making my foolish way in my perilous 20s, but how glorious that it’s available now.” - Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
A Colombian-Cuban daughter’s story of becoming her own person, finding herself in community, and building a new queer life
The PEN Literary Award-winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poign…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807017333 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0807017337 |
| Author: | Daisy Hernández |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“Gorgeously written from start to finish.”
—Boston Globe
“By the end of this beautiful book, Daisy Hernández, a queer American Latina, has threaded Spanish and English together to create an inimitable new language in a brave and brilliant negotiation of a multilingual world.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“Hernández writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love.”
—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
Daisy Hernández
Daisy Hernandez is the coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism and the former editor of ColorLines magazine. She speaks at colleges and conferences about feminism, race, and media representations, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Ms. magazine, CultureStrike, In These Times, Bellingham Review, Fourth Genre, and Hunger Mountain, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. In 2022, she won the PEN Literary Award for The Kissing Bug (Tin House).
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