Synopses & Reviews
Like Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Debra Busman's like a woman is a vivid coming-of-age story, revealing the lives of teenage girls on the streets of Los Angeles, trying to hold onto their sense of humanity against a backdrop of racism, poverty, sexism, and violence.
Debra Busman is co-director of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at CSU Monterey Bay. Her work has been published in Combined Destinies: Whites Share Grief About Racism, Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape, Social Justice: New Pedagogies for Social Change, and the Los Angeles Review. This is her first novel.
Synopsis
Two girls come of age on the mean streets of LA against a backdrop of racism, poverty, and violence
Synopsis
Reminiscent of Dorothy Allisons
Bastard Out of Carolina, Debra Busmans
like a woman is a vivid coming of age story, revealing the lives of teenage girls on the streets of Los Angeles, trying to hold onto their self-defined sense of ethics and humanity against a backdrop of racism, poverty, sexism and violence.
About the Author
Debra Busman is a fiction/creative non-fiction writer and co-director of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at CSU Monterey Bay. Coeditor of
Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing, her work has been published in
Combined Destinies: Whites Share Grief About Racism,
Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape,
The LA Review,
Social Justice: New Pedagogies for Social Change, and
Womens Studies Quarterly 26: Working Class Lives and Cultures.” She lives in Carmel, CA.