Guerrero, Jean

Summary: "In the tradition of parent-child memoirs from The Liar's Club to The Glass Castle, here is the haunting story of a daughter's quest to understand her father, to save him from his own demons and to save herself from following his self-destructive path. Marco Antonio was born in Mexico but as a teenager migrated with his large family north to California, where he met Jean's mother, a young...

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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUERRERO, JEAN GUE

St. John, Linda

Summary: A memoir by a celebrated "outsider" artist details how her dirt-poor childhood, her strange family, and her father's illness shaped her into the person she is today.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ST. JOHN, LINDA STJ

Moss, Barbara Robinette.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 MOS

Moss, Barbara Robinette.

Summary: A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter is a remarkable literary memoir of resilience, redemption, and growing up in the South. Barbara Robinette Moss was the fourth in a family of eight children raised in the red-clay hills of Alabama. Their wild-eyed, alcoholic father was a charismatic and irrationally proud man who, when sober,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.292 MOS