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Author Barnes, Cinelle, author.

Title Malaya : essays on freedom / Cinelle Barnes.

Publication Info. New York : Little A, [2019]
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 BARNES    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 180 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction -- Yours -- To care, to care too much -- Café culture -- Carefree white girls, careful brown girls -- Frenzied woman -- A triptych: girls of summer -- Genealogy -- The gulf between, the war within -- Why your mother can't drive -- Why I write memoir -- My daughter, the future writer -- Acknowledgments -- About the author.
Summary "From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay collection about finding freedom in America. Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning. Because she couldn't get a driver's license or file taxes, Cinelle worked as a cleaning lady and a nanny and took other odd jobs--and learned to look over her shoulder, hoping she wouldn't get caught. When she falls in love and marries a white man from the South, Cinelle finds herself trying to adjust to the thorny underbelly of "southern hospitality" while dealing with being a new mother, an immigrant affected by PTSD, and a woman with a brown body in a profoundly white world. From her immigration to the United States, to navigating a broken legal system, to balancing assimilation and a sense of self, Cinelle comes to rely on her resilience and her faith in the human spirit to survive and come of age all over again. Lyrical, emotionally driven, and told through stories both lived and overheard, Cinelle's intensely personal, yet universal, exploration of race, class, and identity redefines what it means to be a woman--and an American--in a divided country."--Provided by publisher
Subject Noncitizens. (OCoLC)fst00967153
Genre/Form Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
Subject Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Philippines. (OCoLC)fst01205261
Barnes, Cinelle -- Family.
Filipino Americans. (OCoLC)fst00924194
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Barnes, Cinelle.
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Noncitizens -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Local Subject Undocumented immigration -- United States
Subject Women -- Philippines -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Subject Filipino Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Philippines -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00908722
Filipino Americans -- Southern States -- Biography.
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Illegal immigration -- United States
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781542093309 (hardcover)
1542093309 (hardcover)
9781542093323 (paperback)
1542093325 (paperback)
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