Description
FUNERAL FOR FLACA is an exploration of things lost and found--love; identity; family--and the traumas that transcend bodies; borders; cultures; and generations. Emilly Prado retraces her experience coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk in this collection that is one-part memoir-in-essays; and one-part playlist; zigzagging across genres and decades; much like the rapidly changing and varied tastes of her youth.

Author
Emilly Giselle Prado is a writer and educator living in Portland; Oregon. She is a "first-and-a-half" generation Chicana raised in the San Francisco Bay Area by a first- generation Mexican American and a Mexican immigrant. Emilly spent half a decade working as a freelance multimedia journalist; producing award-winning reporting centered on the voices and experiences of people from historically marginalized communities. She is the author of Examining Assimilation (Enslow; 2019) a youth non-fiction book about the intersections of identity and society. Her writing can be found in NPR; Marie Claire; Bitch Media; Eater; The Oregonian; Ms. Magazine; and more. When not writing; Emilly serves as the Director of Youth Programs at Literary Arts by day and moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with Noche Libre; the Latinx DJ collective she co-founded in 2017.

Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Future Tense Books
Date Published: July 1, 2021
Subjects: Literary Criticism Caribbean Latin American Collections Biography Autobiography Cultural Ethnic Regional Hispanic Latino
EAN: 9781892061xxx
Physical Dimensions: 5.00" x 8.00"
Shipping Weight: 1.25 lbs.