East of the River // A Memoir of Los Angeles Girlhood

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From acclaimed artist and Instagram star Guadalupe Rosales comes this moonlit memoir, a visually stunning, poignant account of growing up in 90s Los Angeles that weaves stories with snapshots and social media moments.

Guadalupe Rosales chronicles her Boyle Heights childhood and adolescence in East LA, finding joy and danger from Commerce Center to Whittier Boulevard. Her frank, intimate prose captures the freedom and fear pulsing through that time and how sisterhood helped her survive it.

After losing loved ones to violence and struggling with drugs and depression, Rosales moved across the country to New York City. A stack of starshots from her youth became a lifeline and eventually inspired her to create two Instagram archives while she was away from home:Veteranas and Rucascelebrates 90s LA women, whileMap Pointzfocuses on the party crew scene.Thanks to her, theyre thriving online communities.

Now this beloved artistwhose work hangs in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and elsewhereextends her project of collective memory by sharing her own story of adolescence in a treacherous time, finding herself as an artist far from home, coming to terms with her own queerness, and returning to her beloved Los Angeles transformed.Elegantly designed, the text is interspersed with photography, flyers, Rosaless own artwork, and social media conversations.

An altar to a past era and a map to the future, this book is a reminder that memory, celebration, and community make us whole.

Guadalupe Rosalesis a multidisciplinary artist and educator best known for her community-generated archival projects, Veteranas and Rucas and Map Pointz, found on social media.The archives explore ideas about how history and culture are framed and who does the framing. As a counterpoint, the archive celebrates, humanizes and reflects the positive and honest attributes of shared culture.In her studio practice, Guadalupe works with sculpture, photography, video, sound, drawing, and community based projects and collaborations, and the archive.

• Publisher: One World
• Publish Date: September 08, 2026
• Pages: 336
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPC: 9780593447260
• Dimensions: 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.8 inches | 2.1 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Hobbies, Politics