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“It’s a queer coming of age story about her experiences as a biracial woman. Her mother is Chinese-Hawaiian and her father Jewish. Her heritage is quite complicated, and she’s experiencing girlhood from quite a privileged world, but you can’t pin it down. Because while there is privilege, both her parents suffer from addiction and are absent in different ways—emotionally absent, physically absent—through drug use. Madden is an only child navigating this traumatic landscape alone and then later finding a lifeline in her friends, the titular fatherless girls.” Read more...
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