Author: Millner, Caille

This is the clear-eyed and transfixing memoir of a rising star on the literary scene. From her childhood in a Latino neighborhood in San Jose, California, and her coming of age in a more affluent yet quietly hostile Silicon Valley suburb to a succession of imagined promised lands - Harvard, London, post-apartheid South Africa, New York City - this is the story of Millner's search for a place where she can define herself on her own terms and live a life that matters. 256 pp.