{"id":495,"date":"2009-10-29T17:46:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2009-10-29T17:46:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T22:46:58","slug":"gringa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/495","title":{"rendered":"Gringa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gringa.jpg?w=100\" alt=\"Gringa\" title=\"Gringa\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-497\" \/><strong>Hart, Melissa. <em>Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood<\/em>. 2009. 288 p. Seal Press, $16.95 (9781580052948). Gr. 8-12.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Palabras son libertades,&#8221; murmurs Melissa&#8217;s mother.  &#8220;Words are freedom.&#8221;  Melissa&#8217;s memoir shares her freedom ride as the White girl of a homosexual mother and an angry father in 1970s Southern California.  The prejudice against homosexual parents limits Melissa&#8217;s time with her mother. Melissa yearns for her mother and the Latino culture her mother has embraced&#8230;the colors, flavors, music and language conflicts with Melissa&#8217;s WASP reality.  And what about her sexual identity &#8211; is Melissa straight or gay &#8211; can she be someone other than what she is called to be &#8211; herself?  Melissa doesn&#8217;t want to be a &#8220;tourist&#8221; and instead, prefers to be a &#8220;citizen of the world.&#8221; Melissa learns the cost of such a journey is paid with currency from the heart.-<em>Laurie Spurling<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hart, Melissa. Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood. 2009. 288 p. Seal Press, $16.95 (9781580052948). Gr. 8-12. &#8220;Palabras son libertades,&#8221; murmurs Melissa&#8217;s mother. &#8220;Words are freedom.&#8221; Melissa&#8217;s memoir shares her freedom ride as the White girl of a homosexual mother and an angry father in 1970s Southern California. The prejudice against homosexual parents limits Melissa&#8217;s time with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,169],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-gringa","tag-melissa-hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}