As she explores with wry humor the history of her attraction to women-“I grabbed a magazine and realized boobs were the best thing ever….I was eight but I knew what I wanted”-and how the unique blending of her mother’s Mexican heritage with her father’s Mexican-Polish roots framed her “Molack” (“Mexican” and “Polack”) worldview and influenced her studies at the University of California, she also tells the harrowing story of Sophia Castro Torres, another Chicana, whose fate was less kind. A self-described “early-onset feminist,” the author is deeply invested in and intimately aware of the construction of identity. Gifted experimental writer Gurba ( Painting Their Portraits in Winter, 2015, etc.) takes a hard look back at her adolescent and early college years in Southern California. A gritty memoir exploring gender politics and growing up mixed-race Chicana.
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