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Like a Woman
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Reminiscent of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Debra Busman's like a woman is a vivid coming-of-age story, revealing the lives of teenage girls on the streets of Los Angeles, trying to hold onto their self-defined sense of ethics and humanity against a backdrop of racism, poverty, sexism, and violence.
"Debra Busman uses her pitch-perfect voice to capture a chi Id's sensibi lity—a secret, forgotten world in which time can be distended by desire, what is true takes precedence over what is real, and we practically vibrate with the resilience and raw power we barely remembered having... These are wrenching and unforgettable stories, ones I raced to finish, and want to read again." —Julie Shigekuni, author of Unending Nora, Invisible Gardens, and A Bridge Between Us
"In restrained, clear-eyed prose, Debra Busman tells an urgent tale of coming of age in a world most of us can't imagine, where children must survive adults to forge their own moral codes and communities, and where the lines blur between the fantasy of Hollywood and the reality of race, class, and gender on the street."
—Faith Adiele, editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology-, award-winning author of Meeting Faith: An Inward Odyssey
Debra Busman is a fiction/creative nonfiction writer and co-director of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at CSU Monterey Bay. Co-editor of Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing, her work has been published in Combined Destinies: Whites Share Grief About Racism, Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape, The LA Review, Social Justice: New Pedagogies for Social Change, and Women's Studies Quarterly 26: "Working-Class Lives and Cultures."
"Debra Busman uses her pitch-perfect voice to capture a chi Id's sensibi lity—a secret, forgotten world in which time can be distended by desire, what is true takes precedence over what is real, and we practically vibrate with the resilience and raw power we barely remembered having... These are wrenching and unforgettable stories, ones I raced to finish, and want to read again." —Julie Shigekuni, author of Unending Nora, Invisible Gardens, and A Bridge Between Us
"In restrained, clear-eyed prose, Debra Busman tells an urgent tale of coming of age in a world most of us can't imagine, where children must survive adults to forge their own moral codes and communities, and where the lines blur between the fantasy of Hollywood and the reality of race, class, and gender on the street."
—Faith Adiele, editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology-, award-winning author of Meeting Faith: An Inward Odyssey
Debra Busman is a fiction/creative nonfiction writer and co-director of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at CSU Monterey Bay. Co-editor of Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing, her work has been published in Combined Destinies: Whites Share Grief About Racism, Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape, The LA Review, Social Justice: New Pedagogies for Social Change, and Women's Studies Quarterly 26: "Working-Class Lives and Cultures."
