Alicia Erian
Autor de Towelhead
Sobre El Autor
Alicia Erian is a graduate of SUNY Binghamton and has an MFA in writing from Vermont College. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband.
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The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood… (2007) — Contribuidor — 87 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1967
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Syracuse, New York, USA
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- Syracuse, New York, USA
Montpelier, Vermont, USA
Binghamton, New York, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA - Educación
- Vermont College
State University of New York, Binghamton - Ocupaciones
- novelist
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I picked up the book Towelhead: A novel because I was intrigued by the New York Times' review of the movie directed by Alan Ball (of Six Feet Under and American Beauty). I also picked it up, because I'm always interested in how authors' portray the burgeoning sexuality of preteen and teen girls especially now that teenagers seem more sexualized than ever. Towelhead did a good job of exploring 13-year-old Jasria's sexuality. The proof is by how uncomfortable I felt reading this book.
In order to truly understand Jasira's reasoning, one has to remember what it was like to be a teenager. As an adult, I can see the faulty decisions of my adolescence with 20/20 hindsight. Back then, the decisions seemed okay. Towelhead was so uncomfortable because so much of the confused sexual feelings and experimentation was familiar to me.
I couldn't stop reading this book, and completed it in just one day. I wanted to rush to the end to see if this girl would ever get her head on straight. (To say yea or nay would spoil the ending.) Although I could relate to Jasira's sexual naïveté, I did become disgusted by it. Even at 13-years-old, I knew the difference between a "good" touch and a "bad touch" even though I was taught, like Jasira, to be ashamed of even the good touches. But that was probably supposed to be a reflection on Jasira's parents’ lack of parenting.
*SIGH* With all that said, I can't say whether or not I liked the book. It was just too disturbing. Once I get over the shock of it, I'll come back and rate it.
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