A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hernández
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A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about the lessons she learns--and rebels against--about being poor, queer and Latina from the women in her family.
In her lyrical coming of age memoir, Daisy Hernánderz, the daughter of a Colombian mother and Cuban father, chronicles what the colorful women in her community taught her about race, sex, money, and love. On the outskirts of New York City, Daisy starts out in English as a Second Language classes and later ends up writing for The New York Times. In between, she struggles to come out as a bisexual and rebels against her family's expectations that she become white--like the Italians. A touching and heartfelt exploration of family and identity, A Cup of Water Under My Bed is about sexuality, immigration, race and class issues, but it is ultimately a daughter's story of shaping lessons from home into a new, queer life.