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Mean

Mean

Paperback (21 Dec 2017)

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Publisher's Synopsis

  • Gurba is an extraordinary performer with an enthusiastic spoken word fan base, and the Mean's voice-driven quality should appeal to them directly
  • Rather than a memoir, this is a nonfiction novel, a la How Should a Person Be-Gurba's life provides the plot points, but a novelistic impulse provides the frame.
  • Gurba turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy, differentiating between "classic" (stranger rape) and "avant garde" (molestation by a classmate) sexual assault in a way that's in your face and unforgettable.
  • Race, class, gender, and sexuality all break open in unexpected ways in Gurba's hands. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously.

    • Book information

    ISBN: 9781566894913
    Publisher: Coffee House Press
    Imprint: Coffee House Press
    Pub date:
    DEWEY: 813.6
    DEWEY edition: 23
    Language: English
    Number of pages: 175
    Weight: 232g
    Height: 210mm
    Width: 140mm
    Spine width: 12mm

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