American Gypsy

Oksana Marafioti was 15 when her family moved to Hollywood. She’d grown up in Russia, touring with the family’s band of gypsies across the Siberian tundra. Then suddenly she found herself in Hollywood, struggling to survive socially in a sea of American teenagers who didn’t understand her stepmother...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marafioti, Oksana
Format: Audio
Language:English
Published: Digital Scholarship@UNLV 2012
Subjects:
American literature
Autobiography
Criticism
Romanies
Siberia (Russia)
United States
Arts and Humanities
Creative Writing
Literature in English
North America
Nonfiction
Other Languages
Societies
and Cultures
Tundra
Siberia
Online Access:https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/blackmountain_lectures_events/126
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/context/blackmountain_lectures_events/article/1125/type/native/viewcontent
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Summary:Oksana Marafioti was 15 when her family moved to Hollywood. She’d grown up in Russia, touring with the family’s band of gypsies across the Siberian tundra. Then suddenly she found herself in Hollywood, struggling to survive socially in a sea of American teenagers who didn’t understand her stepmother’s palm reading, or the exorcisms her father performed on the side. So what’s an MTV-loving teen to do? Oksana Marafioti talks about her memoir, American Gypsy, and what it took to dig deep into her family’s history: the good, the bad, and what ultimately makes her what she is.

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