Ambidextrous : The Secret Lives of Children
Overview
Bold, funny, and shockingly honest, Ambidextrous is like no other memoir of 1950s urban childhood. Picano appears to his parents and siblings to be a happy, cheerful eleven-year-old, possessed of the remarkable talent of being able to draw beautifully and write fluently with either hand. But then he runs into the mindless bigotry of a middle school teacher who insists that left-handedness is "wrong," and his idyllic world falls apart. He uncovers the insatiable appetites of a trio of neighboring sisters, falls for another boy with a glue-sniffing habit, and discovers the hidden world of adult desire and hypocrisy. Picano exits his boyhood sooner than most, but with this sense of self intact and armed with a fuller understanding of the world he is about to enter.
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- ISBN-13: 9798989559503
- ISBN-10: 9798989559503
- Publisher: Beautiful Dreamer Press
- Publish Date: March 2024
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.67 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.83 pounds
- Page Count: 296
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