{"product_id":"a-cup-of-water-under-my-bed-9780807017333","title":"A Cup of Water Under My Bed","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of \u003ci\u003eThe House on Mango Street\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about \u003ci\u003eenvidia \u003c\/i\u003eand men who seduce you with pastries, while one tía bemoans that her niece is turning out to be “\u003ci\u003euna india\u003c\/i\u003e” instead of an American. Another auntie instructs that when two people are close, they are bound to become like \u003ci\u003euña y mugre\u003c\/i\u003e, fingernails and dirt, and that no, Daisy’s father is not godless. He’s simply praying to a candy dish that can be traced back to Africa. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These lessons—rooted in women’s experiences of migration, colonization, \u003ci\u003ey cariño\u003c\/i\u003e—define in evocative detail what it means to grow up female in an immigrant home. In one story, Daisy sets out to defy the dictates of race and class that preoccupy her mother and tías, but dating women and transmen, and coming to identify as bisexual, leads her to unexpected questions. In another piece, NAFTA shuts local factories in her hometown on the outskirts of New York City, and she begins translating unemployment forms for her parents, moving between English and Spanish, as well as private and collective fears. In prose that is both memoir and commentary, Daisy reflects on reporting for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eas the paper is rocked by the biggest plagiarism scandal in its history and plunged into debates about the role of race in the newsroom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language, \u003ci\u003eA Cup of Water Under My Bed\u003c\/i\u003e is ultimately a daughter’s story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":58149566448003,"sku":"9780807017333","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780807017333.jpg?v=1780055343","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/a-cup-of-water-under-my-bed-9780807017333","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}