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Muchachas ordinarias, memorias, Jaquira Diaz

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Muchachas ordinarias

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Jaquira Diaz

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For the muchacha that we were, for the muchacha that I was, for the muchacha of the whole world that are like us we used to be. For muchachas that never came reflected in the books. For ordinary muchachas. Jaquira Díaz has always found himself between extremes in places permeated by violence. Despite hoping to have a united family and a safe home, these were difficult to achieve living below the poverty levels in the Padre Rivera village in Puerto Rico and in Miami Beach, especially after the diagnosis of schizophrenia of her mother and her subsequent one family breakup. The love and support of her panas she maintains to find herself before another disjunctive: her identity and pride as a Puerto Rican does not fit for her new sexual identity. From his fight against the depression and the tortuous path that he had to resort to as a survivor of sexual aggression, passing through the current colonial state of Puerto Rico, Díaz narrates his experiences with incredible lucidity and brutal honesty, bringing the route that the alejó de la despair and The life of love and the desire to become the life I've always wanted to be. Jaquira Diaz was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Miami Beach. Her work has been published in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The New York Times Style Magazine and included in The Best American Essays 2016 anthology, among others. She has been awarded the Whiting Award, the Florida Book Awards gold medal and has been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. She divides her time between Montreal and Miami with her spouse, the writer Lars Horn

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