Atlas of the Human Heart (Live Girls) - Softcover

Gore, Ariel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580050883 ISBN 13: 9781580050883

Publisher: Seal Press, 2003

Synopsis

Like Jack Kerouac's intrepid little sister, Ariel Gore spins the spirited story of a vulnerable drifter who takes refuge in fate and the shadowy recesses of a string of glittering, broken relationships. With just a few pennies and her I Ching, a change of clothes and a one-way ticket to Hong Kong, a perceptive, searching sixteen-year-old Gore makes her way from the sterile suffocation of the Silicon Valley through the labyrinthine customs of Cold-War China, wanders through bustling, electric Kathmandu, and hunkers down in an icy London squat with a prostitute and a boyfriend on the dole. Yet it is in the calm, verdant landscape of rural Italy where, pregnant and penniless, nineteen-year-old Gore's adventure truly begins. An illuminating glimpse into the boldly political Gorecreator of HipMama. com and Hip Mama magazinethis unflinching memoir offers a poignant exploration of the meaning of home and surveys the frontiers of both land and heart. "

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Review:

"Finally, a guidebook that tells you what the locals know."

"Their jaunty prose and irreverent attitude enliven the proceedings."

"Ariel Gore...provides succor to moms who cannot related to our culture's mawkish notions of motherhood."

Book Description:

Hip Mama creator Ariel Gore's memoir chronicling her departure-at the age of sixteen-from the sterile suffocation of the Silicon Valley into the pulsing chaos of the Far East, and on to a nomad's Europe

About this edition

• Publisher: Seal Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1580050883
• ISBN 13: 9781580050883
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 334