Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, (Paperback)

from LynnB

This is an amazing book. When she was six years old, the author left Chile with her parents and younger sister, coming to Canada as refugees. Five years later, she returns to South America where her mother and step-father are revolutionaries fighting for the overthrow of the Chilean government. M...

from juliana_t

A very compelling and emotional memoir. She captured so much more than the politics - her emotional memories really come through and stay with you.

from laVermeer

Astonishing and powerful, this is a vital memoir about life-and-death work. I am so grateful to Aguirre for writing this brave and beautiful text. It is truly impressive.

from wiremonkey

Something Fierce is Ms. Aguirre's coming of age story in the Latin American Resistance during the late seventies and eighties. I had a very scant knowledge of the upheavals to the South during this period (though I knew about the U.S.'s penchant of setting up puppet governments), so her book serv...

from LibraryCin

3.5 stars Carmen was raised in Canada, where her parents had arrived as refugees after being exiled from their native Chile because they were revolutionaries. When Carmen was 11, she, her mother, her stepfather, and her sister all moved to Bolivia (beside Chile) so they could help with the revolu...