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Chargement... American Gypsy: A Memoir (édition 2012)par Oksana Marafioti
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A beautiful narrative of lived experience offering an insight into the Romany culture and navigating the complexities of politics, prejudice, tradition, and identity. Oksana offers a tragicly poignant and surprisingly familiar tale of growing up in a world in between everything, while finding where you belong. ( ) Thoroughly enjoyable memoir from a Roma Russian woman who emigrated to LA in the 1980s. Oksana comes to the US with her parents and sister; the family splits almost immediately and she's left with adjusting to a new world and navigating the new world of the family she never really understood. Really good for lots of readers. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A vivid and funny memoir about growing up Gypsy and becoming American Fifteen-year-old Oksana Marafioti is a Gypsy. This means touring with the family band from the Mongolian deserts to the Siberian tundra. It means getting your hair cut in "the Lioness." It also means enduring sneering racism from every segment of Soviet society. Her father is determined that his girls lead a better, freer life. In America! Also, he wants to play guitar with B. B. King. And cure cancer with his personal magnetism. All of this he confides to the woman at the American embassy,who inexplicably allows the family entry. Soon they are living on the sketchier side of Hollywood. What little Oksana and her sister, Roxy, know of the United States they've learned from MTV, subcategory George Michael. It doesn't quite prepare them for the challenges of immigration. Why are the glamorous Kraft Singles individually wrapped? Are the little soaps in the motels really free? How do you protect your nice new boyfriend from your opinionated father, who wants you to marry decently, within the clan? In this affecting, hilarious memoir, Marafioti cracks open the secretive world of the Roma and brings the absurdities, miscommunications, and unpredictable victories of the immigrant experience to life. With unsentimentally perfect pitch,AmericanGypsyreveals how Marafioti adjusted to her new life in America, one slice of processed cheese at a time. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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