![]() ![]() Gurba likes the feel of radioactive substances on her bare hands." - The New York Times " Mean calls for a fat, fluorescent trigger warning start to finish-and I say this admiringly. Sisterhood is powerful, but being a bitch is more exhilarating. ![]() Being rude to men who deserve it is a holy mission. Being mean to boys is fun and a second-wave feminist duty. We act mean to defend our clubs and institutions. We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom and from those who would chop off our breasts. This is a confident, intoxicating, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba's coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. ![]() a powerful, vital book about damage and the ghostly afterlives of abuse." - Los Angeles Review of Books ![]()
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