Jaquira Díaz
Puerto Rican-American writer and memoirist, author of the memoir Ordinary Girls and known for personal essays appearing in national publications.
Books
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1. Ordinary Girls
Stories
A raw, lyrical coming-of-age memoir that traces a young Puerto Rican girl’s turbulent upbringing in working-class neighborhoods marked by violence, addiction, and poverty, following her sexual awakenings, fraught family bonds, brushes with the foster system, and the slow, stubborn work of claiming identity and belonging; vivid scenes and reflective prose show how language, memory, trauma, and resilience shape her life and the fierce, fragile relationships that sustain her.
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