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    612-822-4611

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Rust Belt Femme

Rust Belt Femme

Jolie, Raechel Anne

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral ParentingMidwest

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ISBN10: 1948742632
ISBN13: 9781948742634
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Published: Mar 10 2020
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
An NPR Best Book: [Jolie's] story is both remarkable and utterly ordinary; any dreamy kid who grew up broke and weird will see a spark of themselves. ―The New Republic

One of NPR's Best Books of 2020
Winner, Independent Publisher Awards Gold Medal for LGBTQ+ nonfiction

Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the women who loved them. After her father came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb and was hit by a drunk driver, her life changed.

Raechel and her mother struggled for money: they were evicted, went days without utilities, and took their trauma out on one another. Raechel escaped to the progressive suburbs of Cleveland Heights, leaving the tractors and ranch-style homes in favor of a city with vintage marquees, music clubs, and people who talked about big ideas. It was the early '90s, full of Nirvana songs and chokers, flannel shirts and cut-off jean shorts, lesbian witches and local coffee shops. Rust Belt Femme is the story of how these twin foundations―rural Ohio poverty and alternative '90s culture―made Raechel into who she is today: a queer femme with PTSD and a deep love of the Midwest.

A sharp coming-of-age portrait. ―Kirkus Reviews

This miraculous little book manages to plumb the depths of poverty, trauma, punk rock, maternal devotion, young love, and queer identity in language that is lyric and precise. I was blown away. You will be too. --Steve Almond, New York Times-bestselling author of Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow

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