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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872866126 02 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100978980 02 0872866122 03 9780872866126 15 9780872866126 BC 1 A01 Felix, Dia Dia Felix <p> Dia Felix is a writer and filmmaker. She has written for numerous blogs including the Museum of Arts and Design, and has performed her work at many venues including Segue Series and Dixon Place. She is an award-winning digital media producer for museums (Exploratorium, Museum of Arts and Design) and teaches and mentors teens in experimental documentary filmmaking at Reel Works teen filmmaking continuum in Brooklyn. She is also the founder and editor of Personality Press. Born and raised in California, she lives in New York.</p> 01 eng 216 00 216 03 20 fiction;gay;lesbian;queer 01 <p> Daughter to a divorced new age guru, Nochita wanders through the cracks of California's counter-culture, half feral child, half absurdist prophet. When tragedy strikes she is sent to live with her father, a working-class cowboy with a fragile grasp on sobriety and a dangerously mean fiancée. Stuck with adults chillingly unable to care for her, Nochita takes to the streets, a runaway with nothing to run from, driven forward by desperation, hope and an irrepressible wonder.</p> <p> <em>Nochita</em> is a poetic novel dazzling in its detail, stylistically daring, by turns hallucinatory, darkly funny and brutally real. At its heart is the singular voice of Nochita, tender and fierce, alone and alive and utterly unforgettable.</p> <p> <strong>Praise for <em>Nochita:</em></strong></p> <p> "Nochita shimmers with humor and delight, she burns with stark raving intelligence."—Mary Gaitskill</p> <p> "In Nochita, Dia Felix builds an extraordinarily rich and inventive language to carry the kaleidoscopic point of view of her young protagonist. What a pleasure to open a book and find such exuberant and committed artistry. A stunning debut." 
—Janet Fitch</p> 02 A poetic debut novel, formally experimental, by turns hallucinatory, darkly funny and brutally real. Nochita is tender, fierce, and unforgettable. 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100978980/images/87286100978980L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100978980/images/87286100978980S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100978980 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 02 20140401 08 16 oz