{"product_id":"the-little-sister-a-memoir-9798199349291","title":"The Little Sister: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Victoria Cortez\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Survival\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"She knew it was wrong. She kept saying so. And eventually, she built an entire life out of the clarity nobody believed she had.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Little Sister\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir about what happens to a child when her own family cannot fully see her - and what happens to the woman she becomes when she finally decides to stop asking permission to be real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictoria Cortez grew up in San Jose as the youngest child and the only one who looked like her father: a Black man from Arkansas who carried Jim Crow in his body and Silicon Valley in his paycheck. Her mother was the daughter of a Spanish immigrant, a fiery liberal who loved her and could not fully claim her. Her siblings were five years older, olive-skinned, and clear-eyed about where the family's edges were.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was outside those edges from the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat followed was a childhood defined by: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA sister with undiagnosed schizophrenia who chased her through the house with knives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA family emergency system built from a pager code: 911. 9264702. 911. 911.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYears of being told her Blackness was something to manage and be ashamed of\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA body she learned to hide inside as the hunger for belonging became literal weight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelf-harm at twelve - anger with nowhere else to go\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd the relentless, exhausting clarity of a child who kept seeing the truth when every adult around her agreed not to\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Little Sister\u003c\/i\u003e does not offer resolution. It offers something harder and more valuable: precision. The exact words for things that have been left unnamed. The accounting of what harm costs when it lives inside a family that loves you. And the portrait of a woman who stopped waiting for apology and started building accountability infrastructure instead - in her home, in her parenting, and in the news agency and consumer protection organization she created to ensure the receipts are always on record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis memoir is for: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders of Roxane Gay's \u003ci\u003eHunger\u003c\/i\u003e, Kiese Laymon's \u003ci\u003eHeavy\u003c\/i\u003e, and Leslie Jamison's \u003ci\u003eThe Recovering\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdult survivors of childhood trauma seeking language for experiences that were never named\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders navigating the intersection of race, family, mental illness, and identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone who has ever been the one in the room who saw it clearly and was told they were wrong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHave courage. Forward always.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968588234903,"sku":"9798199349291","price":1092.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199349291.webp?v=1782918677","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-little-sister-a-memoir-9798199349291","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}