White field, black sheep

Daiva Markelis was raised during the 1960s and 1970s in Chicago by her immigrant European refugee parents in a household where Lithuanian was the first language. She recalls the amusing contortions of language and identity that animated her childhood, and humorously recollects her youth, from her First Communion to her first game of Twister. Ultimately she revisits the troubles that surfaced in the wake of her assimilation into American culture: the constricting expectations of her family and community, her problems with alcoholism and depression, and her sometimes contentious but always loving relationship with her mother.--From book jacket.

שנה

2010

שפה

English

הוצאה

The University of Chicago Press

מהדורות

4

עמודים

208

ISBN

9780226505305

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata