Ordinary Girls: A Memoir (Audiobook)

from RidgewayGirl

This is a memoir by journalist Jaquira Diáz about her childhood in Puerto Rico, through her school years in Miami and into her adulthood as she negotiates her way as the daughter of estranged parents, bouncing back and forth between her absent father and her mentally ill and drug addicted mother....

from scotlass66

There are some lives that, if you hear their story, you wonder how they could have survived. The story is tragic, filled with violence and anger, a life that is tarnished and broken in so many ways. Poverty, racism, sexism, depression, addiction: Jaquira's early life was filled with all of these,...

from LoisCK

“Ordinary Girls” by Jaquira Diaz was an education for me; a window into a foreign world within my own country. Ms. Diaz takes you inside the Puerto Rican community in Miami and sometimes brutally shows you what her life was like. While I knew in my head that there were girls growing up dealing wi...

from Judgejudy2u

Wow! This is just a great book from beginning to end. This is more than just a memoir but a story of so many different lives lived by one person. Hats off to the author for sharing her very personnal journey. The only down side was it did jump around a few times but if you are really reading, tru...

from LissaJ

This memoir about Jacquira Diaz's rough childhood in Puerto Rico and Miami is at times difficult to read, both because of the content and because it skips around frequently in time, however it is definitely worth reading. In the end it is a testament to friendship and the girls who get us through...