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Funeral for Flaca

by Emilly Prado

Coming of age across cultures and musical scenes

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Coming of age across cultures and musical scenes

Emilly Prado’s collection combines memoir essays with a playlist-shaped structure to trace a young Chicana’s search for acceptance, from the mostly white suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1990s and early 2000s to a move to Portland in 2008. Its subject matter links personal questions of identity and family with loss and trauma that cross cultural and generational boundaries. The shifts in genre and decade echo the changing musical tastes described as part of Prado’s youth, giving the collection a form that brings music into its account of growing up.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in memoir-in-essays and autobiographical coming-of-age writing
  • Readers exploring Chicana identity and family across cultural and generational lines
  • Readers drawn to music as part of personal history

Themes

Coming of ageChicana identityFamily and belongingLoss and traumaMusic and memory

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Book overview

Funeral for Flaca is an exploration of things lost and found-love, identity, family-and the traumas that transcend bodies, borders, cultures, and generations.

Emilly Prado retraces her experience coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk in this collection that is one-part memoir-in-essays, and one-part playlist, zigzagging across genres and decades, much like the rapidly changing and varied tastes of her youth. Emilly spends the late 90's and early aughts looking for acceptance as a young Chicana growing up in the mostly-white suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to Portland, Oregon in 2008. Ni de aqu

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