The Resource Cack-handed : a memoir, Gina Yashere
Cack-handed : a memoir, Gina Yashere
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The item Cack-handed : a memoir, Gina Yashere represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Anaheim Public Library.
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- Summary
- "According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfill the dreams of her grandmother Patience. The powerful first wife of a wealthy businessman, Patience was poisoned to death by her jealous sister-wives and marked with a spot on her neck. The symbol auspiciously reappeared in Gina's matching birthmark, anointing her as the one to do what Patience only dreamt of-to speak perfect English, live unfettered by men or children, work a man's job, and travel the world with a free spirit. A look at Yashere's current life may testify to the reality of reincarnation. In Cack Handed, Gina retraces an intergenerational journey to her success foretold by her grandmother and fulfilled across the pond. Her accounts are spiked with hilarious retellings of her childhood under the thumb of an overbearing Nigerian mother whose scrapbooks were filled with tragic newspaper headlines that fueled her mistrust of the outside world. Despite this, Gina manages to find freedom in small rebellions, secretly borrowed bathing suits and leveraging her mother's fear of academic failure to participate in international travels. She also navigates life as a young woman in humorous accounts, including fistfights with cross-dressing friends turned enemies, and life as the only female engineer in an office full of sexist elevator operators. Recounted in a succession of eccentric, addictive, and uproarious stories, Cack Handed reveals how Yashere's unconventional upbringing at the intersections of race, gender, class, and country became the key to her triumph as an international comedian"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xii, 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062961723
- Label
- Cack-handed : a memoir
- Title
- Cack-handed
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Gina Yashere
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfill the dreams of her grandmother Patience. The powerful first wife of a wealthy businessman, Patience was poisoned to death by her jealous sister-wives and marked with a spot on her neck. The symbol auspiciously reappeared in Gina's matching birthmark, anointing her as the one to do what Patience only dreamt of-to speak perfect English, live unfettered by men or children, work a man's job, and travel the world with a free spirit. A look at Yashere's current life may testify to the reality of reincarnation. In Cack Handed, Gina retraces an intergenerational journey to her success foretold by her grandmother and fulfilled across the pond. Her accounts are spiked with hilarious retellings of her childhood under the thumb of an overbearing Nigerian mother whose scrapbooks were filled with tragic newspaper headlines that fueled her mistrust of the outside world. Despite this, Gina manages to find freedom in small rebellions, secretly borrowed bathing suits and leveraging her mother's fear of academic failure to participate in international travels. She also navigates life as a young woman in humorous accounts, including fistfights with cross-dressing friends turned enemies, and life as the only female engineer in an office full of sexist elevator operators. Recounted in a succession of eccentric, addictive, and uproarious stories, Cack Handed reveals how Yashere's unconventional upbringing at the intersections of race, gender, class, and country became the key to her triumph as an international comedian"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Yashere, Gina,
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Yashere, Gina
- Comedians
- Actors
- Label
- Cack-handed : a memoir, Gina Yashere
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xii, 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062961723
- Lccn
- 2021931442
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- 21881308
- Label
- Cack-handed : a memoir, Gina Yashere
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xii, 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062961723
- Lccn
- 2021931442
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- 21881308
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