Myriam Gurba

Mean, a blend of true crime, memoir, and ghost story, is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba's coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humour, Gurba addresses sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, intoxicating, brassy book that takes...

"The mother of intersectional Latinx identity." -Cosmopolitan "Scorchingly good." -Cheryl Strayed "The most fearless writer in America." -Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist "A truly distinctive, authentic, and dynamic literary voice. . . Myriam Gurba is one of our great American intellectuals." -Los Angeles Times Myriam Gurba has lived in California her entire life, with its plants and soils, forests...