Jan Beatty

American Bastard (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• BASED ON TRUE STORIES ABOUT ADOPTION: Beatty's memoir deconstructs what it means to be a "chosen baby" in Western culture
• AN HONEST TAKE ON FAMILY: American Bastard is a frank observation of adoption, living in an orphanage, and the struggle to find comfort in one's birth parents versus adopted parents.
• SEARCHING FOR ONE'S IDENTITY: What happens when adoption means complete erasure of selfhood?
• FROM CANADA TO UNITED STATES: Beatty searches for her Canadian father, a three-time Stanley Cups-winning hockey player, and her working-class birth mother from Pittsburgh.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Red Hen Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781636280127
• Artikelnr.: 62612272

Autorenporträt

Jan Beatty's sixth book, The Body Wars (2020), was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Books include Jackknife: New and Collected Poems (2018 Paterson Prize) named by Sandra Cisneros on LitHub as her favorite book of 2019. Awards include the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Discovery/The Nation Prize finalist, Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, $10,000 Artists Grant from the Pittsburgh Foundation, and a $15,000 Creative Achievement Award in Literature from the Heinz Foundation. She directs creative writing and the Madwomen in the Attic Workshops at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is Distinguished Writer in Residence in the MFA program.