# Zami

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- Authors: [Audre Lorde](https://www.bookquiver.com/audre-lorde)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2018-07-05

## Description

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy sidewalks, and finds she is tongue-tied, legally blind, left behind by her older sisters. On she stumbles through teenage hardships -- suicide, abortion, hunger, a Christmas spent alone -- until she emerges into happiness: an oasis of friendship in Washington Heights, an affair in a dirty factory in Connecticut, and, finally, a journey down to the heat of Mexico, discovering sex, tenderness, and suppers of hot tamales and cold milk. This is Audre Lorde's story. It is a rapturous, life-affirming tale of independence, love, work, strength, sexuality and change, rich with poetry and fierce emotional power.

## Editions

### Zami

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4135-109-3
- Published: 2018-07-05
- Language: en_GB

### Zami

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4135-108-6
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2018-07-05
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Zami](https://www.bookquiver.com/audre-lorde/de/zami) (de_DE)