Silicon Valley Girl (Paperback) by Maya Morrow Inspired by the life and works of poet Sylvia Plath, including Plaths published journals, Maya Morrow presents her own coming-of-age journey in this collection of raw and uncensored diaries spanning a decade and a half. The story begins Christmas 1984 and ends in 1999, when the author, twenty-six, rediscovers the handwritten diaries for the first time. These diaries are compelling enough on their own, Morrow writes. However, what makes this coming-of-age story different from many others is that it gives the reader a glimpse of not just an average, American middle class girls life it highlights the fact that my life was that, and Im Afro American. When The Cosby Show came on, I saw my family on television, and didnt understand why the media said the show was an unrealistic depiction of African American life. It was realistic; it was my life! Set against a backdrop of cultural touchstones any Gen-Xer would recognize, Silicon Valley Girl: My Adolescent Life and Times, and an Ode to Generation X offers a deeply personal look at the emotional life of a teenager of color trying to make sense of race, class, and sexuality at the dawn of Post-Cold War America. (2017, Paperback, 242 pages)
- | Author: Maya Morrow, Dorrance Co.
- | Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co
- | Publication Date: Jun 29, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 243 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
- | ISBN-10: 148093514X
- | ISBN-13: 9781480935143
