American Bastard

by Jan Beatty

American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continents--and continents of desire as Beatty finds her birthfather, a Canadian hockey player who's won three Stanley Cups--and her birthmother, a working-class woman from Pittsburgh. This is not the whitewashed story, but the real story, where Beatty writes through complete erasure: loss of name and history, and a culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597098787
• ISBN13: 9781597098786
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"