Darling Days
A New York City Childhood
$37.44
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2017
Summary
I was born in September 1985, in the vortex of the Lower East Side of New York. There were few rules of life and zero constraints on behavior. If you were not eccentric, you were weird.
It was a tenement building at the center of the drug-addled, punk-edged, permanent riot that was iO’s corner of the Lower East Side of New York City in the ‘80s and ‘90s. There iO grew up—or rather scrabbled up—under the broken wing of a fiercely protective, yet wildly negligent mother. Rhonna was a sh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349005638 |
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| ISBN-10: | 034900563X |
| Author: | Io Tillett Wright |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 364g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 129mm x 196mm |
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I missed an unprecedented two subway stops because I was so engrossed in iO Tillett Wright’s East Village memoir Darling Days. A riveting story about growing up trans with a mentally ill mother, it will make you fall for the precocious, streetwise iO – Olivia Laing * Guardian * An immensely evocative portrait of growing up in a tenement building in 80s and 90s New York – Anita Sethi * Observer * A wild ride through the grimier bits of downtown New York in the Eighties and Nineties … fans of Patti Smith’s Just Kids will love it – Sarra Manning * Red * If you enjoyed Patti Smith’s Just Kids or Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle, you will devour this * The Pool * A startlingly good debut – Frances Wilson * Oldie * It’s already a rare and wonderful thing to have a great story-but a unique and compelling voice to tell it with is even rarer. With Darling Days, iO Tillett Wright takes us right to where great storytelling lives. A terrific, terrific book, filled with great characters, set in a time and place, the pre-gentrified Lower East Side of Manhattan, that spins farther away from memory with every passing day – Anthony Bourdain Gender-defying iO Tillett Wright mixes such a high-octane cocktail of radiant ink, wild anecdotes, bad behavior, and gritty truths -topped off with an unexpected tonic of transcendence-it could stagger Charles Dickens, electrify Maxim Gorky, and cause Jane Austen to walk around in army boots – Tom Robbins
About The Author
Io Tillett Wright
iO Tillett Wright is a photographer, writer, filmmaker, activist, and actor. iO’s TED talk, 50 Shades of Gay, has been watched by more than two million people.
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