Myriam Gurba: 3 books

“A painfully timely story . . . an artful memoir . . . a powerful, vital book about damage and the ghostly afterlives of abuse.” —Los Angeles Review of Books   True crime, memoir, and ghost story, *Mean *is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba’s coming of age as a queer, mixed-race...

In this artfully crafted collection of new short stories by award-winning author Myriam Gurba, nothing is as it seems on the surface. A Mexican grandmother tells creepy yet fascinating ghost stories to her granddaughters as a way to make them sit still ("How Some Abuelitas Keep Their Chicana...

Readership includes, but is not limited to: -the GLBT community -readers of Latin-American literature -those diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and/or Tourette's Syndrome -urban hipsters