Meet
T. KIRA MADDEN
discussing
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir
Wednesday, March 13, 8pm
Books & Books, Coral Gables
One of the most anticipated books of 2019–Electric Literature, Entertainment Weekly, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, The Millions, Hyphen, Lit Hub, Nylon
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir,Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls (Bloomsbury, $27) is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager in the privileged enclave of Boca Raton, Fla. while her uncle, Steve Madden, and her father built a shoe empire. Her memoir chronicles the fierce contradictions of a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight. Battling parents with drug addictions and a culture of assault and objectification, Madden found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls.
“Frank and funny and powerful and surprising. An utterly gorgeous debut.”-Lauren Groff