Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781593766771)

An "enchanting" memoir of an artist in search of herself: "A sure hit for fans of Sara Benincasa's Agorafabulous! and Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl" (Booklist, starred review).Caca Dolce is the "funny, candid, and bracingly self-aware" story of Chelsea Martin's coming of age as an artist (The Rumpus). We're with the author of cult novels Mickey and Even Though I Don't Miss You as an eleven-year-old atheist, trying to will an alien visitation to her neighborhood; fighting with her stepfather and grappling with a Tourette's diagnosis as she becomes a teenager; falling under the sway of frenemies and crushes in high school; going into debt to afford what might be a meaningless education at an expensive art college; navigating the messy process of falling in love with a close friend; and struggling for independence from her emotionally manipulative father and from the family and friends in the dead-end California town that has defined her upbringing.

A book about relationships, class, art, sex, money, family, and growing up weird and poor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Casa Dolce is "a wild ride of a memoir, and a true glimpse into the mind of an artist as she's figuring out what life is all about" (Kristin Iversen, Nylon).

Author: Chelsea Martin
ISBN-10: 1593766777
ISBN-13: 9781593766771
Publisher: Soft Skull
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2017
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2017
Booklist 07/01/2017 pg. 11