Description
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.
Author: Felice Picano
Publisher: Beautiful Dreamer Press
Published: 03/22/2024
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9798989559503
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | LGBTQ+
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical