Excavation : a memoir
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Portland, OR : Future Tense Books, [2014].
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9781892061706, 1892061708, 9781892061485, 1892061481
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Homewood Public Library District - Adult BiographyBIO ORTIZ, WENDYOn Shelf
Tinley Park Public Library - 1st Floor362.76 ORTIZ, WENDY C.On Shelf

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Published
Portland, OR : Future Tense Books, [2014].
Format
Book
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235 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781892061706, 1892061708, 9781892061485, 1892061481

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"An essay entitled 'Mix tape, ' which included details from this memoir, was previously published by The nervous breakdown."--Title page verso.
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Wendy C. Ortiz was an only child and a bookish, insecure girl living with alcoholic parents in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her relationship with a charming and deeply flawed private school teacher fifteen years her senior appeared to give her the kind of power teenagers wish for, regardless of consequences. Her teacher -- now a registered sex offender -- continually encouraged her passion for writing while making her promise she was not leaving any written record about their dangerous sexual relationship. This conflicted relationship with her teacher may have been just five years long, but would imprint itself on her and her later relationships, queer and straight, for the rest of her life. In Excavation: A Memoir, the black and white of the standard victim/perpetrator stereotype gives way to unsettling grays. The present- day narrator reflects on the girl she once was, as well as the teacher and parent she has become. It's a beautifully written and powerful story of a woman reclaiming her whole heart.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ortiz, W. C. (2014). Excavation: a memoir (First edition.). Future Tense Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ortiz, Wendy C.. 2014. Excavation: A Memoir. Future Tense Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ortiz, Wendy C.. Excavation: A Memoir Future Tense Books, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Ortiz, Wendy C.. Excavation: A Memoir First edition., Future Tense Books, 2014.

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