Me as Her Again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter

Untangling knots of personal identity and family history, Nancy Agabian deftly weaves a narrative alternately comical and...
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Me as Her Again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter by Agabian, Nancy

Me as Her Again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter

BD$19.45

Me as Her Again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter

BD$19.45
Author: Nancy Agabian
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Untangling knots of personal identity and family history, Nancy Agabian deftly weaves a narrative alternately comical and wrenching. Moving between memories of growing up Armenian and American in Walpole, Massachusetts, and her later experiences at Wellesley College, then Hollywood and, finally, Turkey, Agabian offers an illuminating meditation on the sometimes bizarre entanglement of individual desire (sexual and otherwise) in the web of family life and history. At the heart of this unraveling is a grappling with the history of trauma and upheaval experienced by her paternal grandmother, who survived the Armenian Genocide, and the legacy of that wounding experience for Agabian and her extended family.

What's so refreshing about Agabian's prose is her marvelously open, daring, and honest inquiry into the self. Our "enfant terrible"--she has yet again managed to capture us with her quirky, brilliant stories. -- Shushan Avagyan, author of Girk-anvernagir; translator of I Want to Live: Poems of Shushanik Kurghinian

My favorite song from Nancy Agabian's improbably vivid "Guitar Boy" punk rock period a decade ago was the genius anthem "I Don't Want to be a Victim Anymore." Though as she noted at the time, when you're a mousily timid, family-mired, Armenian bisexual artist, not tending toward victimhood isn't all that easy. But you know what? By the end of this splendidly engrossing memory chronicle, she's pulled it off. She's no victim. What she is is funny, smart, generous and wise. And she's my hero. -- Lawrence Weschler, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences



Author: Nancy Agabian
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781879960794


Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

About the Author
Nancy Agabian is a poet and performance artist and author of Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque Books 2000). She has created and performed several one-woman shows in Los Angeles, and collaborated to form the folk-punk duo Guitar Boy. She traveled to Armenia in 2006 as a Fullbright Scholar. She teaches writing at Queens College.


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