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Thu Oct 29

Melissa Hart at Books Inc. Castro


Tel. 415.864.6777
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Location
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Books Inc. in the Castro
2275 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94114 map
cross street: 16th St.
district: Castro/Upper Market

Thu Oct 29 (7:30 P.M.)

Description
Torn between the high socioeconomic status of her father and the bohemian lifestyle of her mother, Melissa Hart tells a compelling story of contradiction in this coming-of-age memoir. Set in 1970s Southern California, "Gringa" is the story of a young girl conflicted by two extremes. On the one hand there's life with her mother, who leaves her father to begin a lesbian relationship, taking Hart and her two siblings along. Hart tells of her mom's new life in a Hispanic neighborhood of Oxnard, California, and how these new surroundings begin to positively shape Hart herself. At the opposite extreme is her father's white-bread well-to-do security, which is predictable and stable and boring. Hart is made all the more fraught with frustration when a judge rules that being raised by two women is "unnatural" and grants her father primary custody. "Gringa" offers a touching, reflective look at one girl's struggle with the dichotomies of class, culture, and sexuality.