Torn between the high socioeconomic status of her father and the
bohemian lifestyle of her mother, Melissa Hart tells a compelling
story of contradiction in this coming-of-age memoir. Set in 1970s
Southern California, Gringa is the story of a young girl conflicted
by two extremes. On the one hand there's life with her mother, who
leaves her father to begin a lesbian relationship, taking Hart and
her two siblings along. Hart tells of her mom's new life in a
Hispanic neighbourhood of Oxnard, California, and how these new
surroundings begin to positively shape Hart herself. At the
opposite extreme is her father's white-bread well-to-do security,
which is predictable and stable and boring. Hart is made all the
more fraught with frustration when a judge rules that being raised
by two women is unnatural" and grants her father primary custody.
Hart weaves a powerful story of fleeting moments with her mother,
of her unfolding adoration of Oxnard's Latino culture, and of the
ways in which she's moulded by the polarity of her parents'
worldviews. Hart is faced with opposing ideals, caught between what
she is supposed" to want and what she actually desires. Gringa
offers a touching, reflective look at one girl's struggle with the
dichotomies of class, culture, and sexuality.
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