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Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman
Yvonne Martinez
其他書名
A Memoir
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2022-10-18
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Family & Relationships / Abuse / Child Abuse
Family & Relationships / Dysfunctional Families
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Hispanic & Latino
ISBN
1647421039
9781647421038
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yUBZEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
“
Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman
is a memoir that turns time on its head, circling through terror and joy with eloquence and becoming its own sacrament of resistance.” —
Foreword Reviews
, 5-star review
At eighteen, Yvonne Martinez flees brutal domestic violence and is taken in by her dying grandmother . . . who used to be a sex worker. Before she dies, her grandmother reveals family secrets and shares her uncommon wisdom. “Someday, Mija,” she tells Yvonne, “you’ll learn the difference between a whore and a working woman.” She also shares disturbing facts about their family’s history—eventually leading Yvonne to discover that her grandmother was trafficked as a child in Depression-era Utah by her own mother, Yvonne’s great-grandmother, and that she was blamed for her own rape.
In the years that follow her grandmother’s passing, Yvonne gets an education and starts a family. As she heals from her own abuse by her mother and stepfather, she becomes an advocate/labor activist. Grounded in her grandmother’s dictum not to whore herself out, she learns to fight for herself and teaches others to do the same—exposing sexual harassment in the labor unions where she works and fighting corruption. Intense but ultimately uplifting,
Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman
is a compelling memoir in essays of transforming transgenerational trauma into resilience and post-traumatic growth.