
Creep \ Creep
Acusaciones y confesiones
Author: Myriam Gurba
Narrator: Alejandra Corman
Unabridged: 12 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
Published: 06/25/2024

Author: Myriam Gurba
Narrator: Alejandra Corman
Unabridged: 12 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
Published: 06/25/2024
Myriam Gurba is a writer and artist. She is the author of the true crime memoir Mean, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. O, The Oprah Magazine, ranked Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time. Publishers Weekly describes Gurba as having a voice like no other. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Paris Review, Time, and 4Columns. She has shown art in galleries, museums, and community centers. She lives in Pasadena, California.
Powerful and painful essays about living as a queer Mexican woman. Creep addresses a range of topics including the intersection of racism and sexism, sexual assault, and oppression enacted by people both within and outside of the literary community. I like that Myriam Gurba can both call people out......more
I appreciated this collection in new ways on my reread. It is so smart and good. Really strong essays. Powerful. Angry. Smart. Dynamic. Gurba’s POV is unique and her arguments are well reasoned. A few stick out as incredibly memorable.......more
Thank you to the author Myrium Gurba, publishers Avid Reader Press and Simon and Schuster, also to NetGalley, for a digital review copy. All views are mine. Three (or more)things I loved: 1. I adore the trip down memory lane with the 80's toys, Barbies and Cabbage Patch Dolls and Garbage Pail Kids! 2.......more
Full disclosure: I won a free ARC of this book in a Goodreads giveaway. Wow! This was definitely better than I'd been expecting. I'm unfamiliar with Gurba's work, but the jacket description was intriguing, and the cover image striking. So I took a chance. The first essay, "Tell," won me over by brin......more