Twist : An American Girl

Twist : An American GirlAuthor: Bertei, Adele Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest Published on 22 May 2023 by ZE Books in the United States. Hardback 250 pages 147 x 223 x 26 402g From iconoclastic writer and musician Adele Bertei comes a wholly original hero's journey that wages war on the clich of the misery memoir. Set in a 1960s and 70s American neighborhood rife with poverty and violence, fatherless Irish mothers and Italian mobsters, and women crucified into madness by

Author: Bertei, Adele

Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest

Published on 22 May 2023 by ZE Books in the United States.

Hardback | 250 pages
147 x 223 x 26 | 402g

From iconoclastic writer and musician Adele Bertei comes a wholly original hero's journey that wages war on the cliché of the “misery memoir.” Set in a 1960s and ’70s American neighborhood rife with poverty and violence, fatherless Irish mothers and Italian mobsters, and women crucified into madness by misogyny, Bertei speaks through her electrically alive avatar Maddie Twist to flip the victim script.

Bertei reveals what it's like to be a queer teen at a time when discovery could be fatal. Maddie peers deeply into the American psyche, refusing to consent to the systems of harm. A compelling personal history of queer culture from a working-class view and a glimpse into worlds yet unseen, Twist is good medicine: for readers who've experienced similar traumas, for teens caught in the foster care system, for the formerly incarcerated looking for hope, for writers grappling with how to tell their own stories.