Then when her family moved to Florida, her life changed, not only because she was suddenly surrounded by a community that viewed her as an outsider, but because her father’s infidelity and her mother’s mental illness increasingly impacted her daily life, throwing her into a cycle of depression and anger. In her book she recounts a complex yet happy early childhood. Yet, while reading Ordinary Girls, I couldn’t think of another personal story that so clearly acts as a refutation of the ugliness of the Trump era.īorn in Puerto Rico, the child of a black father and a white mother, Díaz learned early about the political power of poetry and of the written word. When Jaquira Díaz began writing her memoir, Ordinary Girls, in 2006, few of us would have been able to predict that a former reality TV star would be the President of the United States, and that the current moment would so expose the depth of racism, sexism, and class privilege inherent in the American experience.
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