Caca Dolce
Essays from a Lowbrow Life
Published on 15. August 2017
210 pages
978-1-59376-682-5 (ISBN)
Description
"For anyone who has ever felt weird or poor or misunderstood or just . . . weird, well, this is the book for you. Martin chronicles her own bizarre upbringing in such a way that the strangeness of it all manages to still feel universal. She recounts everything from her attempt to manifest an alien invasion (she was just 11; what 11-year-old doesn't want E.T. to visit?) to the fights she had with her family, to what it was like to be diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome as an adolescent. It's 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
Funny, candid, and searchingly self-aware, this essay collection tells the story of Chelsea Martin's coming of age as an artist. We are with Chelsea 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. This is a book about relationships, class, art, sex, money, and family-and about growing up weird, and poor, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.More details
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Person
Chelsea Martin is the author of Everything Was Fine Until Whatever (2009); The Really Funny Thing About Apathy (2010); Even Though I Don't Miss You (2013), named one of the Best Indie Books of 2013 by Dazed magazine; and Mickey (2016). Her work has appeared in publications including the Poetry Foundation, Hobart, Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter, Vice, and Catapult, and chosen as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016. She is a comic artist and illustrator and the creative director of Universal Error. She holds a BFA from California College of the Arts and currently lives in Spokane, Washington.
Content
- Intro
- Also by Chelsea Martin
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Very Special Introduction That Knows It's Not Actually Special
- Child's Play
- The Meaning of Life
- Vandal
- Punks Not Dead
- A Year Without Spoons
- Voluntary Responses to Involuntary Sensations
- Goth Ryan
- Ceramic Busts
- A Scrap of Hello Kitty Notepaper
- Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker
- How to Bullshit
- Man-Hater
- Trashy Coming-of-Age Story
- Romantic Comedy
- Zeitgeist
- Evolution and Maybe Death
- I Lost a Tooth at Work
- The Man Who Famously Inspired This Essay
- Acknowledgments
