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Winner: 2015 USA Best Book Award, Gay & Lesbian Non-Fiction Honorable Mention: 2015 Rainbow Awards Finalist: Saints & Sinners Emerging Writer Award -- Lori Horvitz grew up ashamed of her Eastern European Jewish roots, confused about her sexuality, and idolizing the "shiksa in her living room," a blonde all-American girl whose photo came in a double frame and was displayed next to a family photo from a bar mitzvah. Unable to join the "happy blonde families," she becomes a "hippie chick" who travels the world in search of ... something. "The Girls of Usually" chronicles each trip, each romance, each experiment in reinventing herself that draws her closer to discovering the secret door through which she can escape from deep-rooted patterns and accept her own cultural, ethnic, and sexual identity.
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Lori Horvitz s writing has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including "South Dakota Review", "Southeast Review", "Hotel Amerika", and "Chattahoochee Review". She has been awarded writing fellowships from Yaddo, Ragdale, Cottages at Hedgebrook, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Blue Mountain Center. A professor of literature and language at UNC Asheville, Horvitz also directs the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. She received a PhD in English from SUNY at Albany and an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College.
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Reading Lori Horvitz's "Girls of Usually" feels like calling up an old friend and talking late into the night. Deeply intimate and wickedly funny, these are essays to be treasured. --Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of "Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana"
When I first heard Lori Horvitz read some of her memoir essays, I laughed so hard my jeans burst open at the waist. The Girls of Usually may be like nothing you've ever read. But as in all the very finest writing, you'll see yourself and maybe find yourself. --Lynda Schor, author of "Sexual Harassment Rules" and "The Body Parts Shop"
These smart, witty, and heartbreaking essays are pure magic and Lori Horvitz is, truly, a magician of the form. --Lee Ann Roripaugh, author of Dandarians
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- PublisherTruman State Univ Pr
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1612481361
- ISBN 13 9781612481364
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages238
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