{"product_id":"ordinary-girls-a-memoir-jaquira-diaz","title":"Ordinary Girls: A Memoir;  Jaquira Diaz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOrdinary Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Jaquira Díaz found herself caught between extremes: as her family split apart and her mother battled schizophrenia, she was surrounded by the love of her friends; as she longed for a family and home, she found instead a life upended by violence. From her own struggles with depression and sexual assault to Puerto Rico’s history of colonialism, every page of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOrdinary Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e vibrates with music and lyricism. Díaz triumphantly maps a way out of despair toward love and hope to become her version of the girl she always wanted to be.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith a story reminiscent of Tara Westover’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEducated\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Roxane Gay’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHunger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and Terese Marie Mailhot’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHeart Berries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Jaquira Díaz delivers a memoir that reads as electrically as a novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctober 29, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJaquira Díaz was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Miami. She is the author of Ordinary Girls: A Memoir, winner of a Whiting Award, a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, and a Lambda Literary Awards finalist. Ordinary Girls was an Indies Introduce Selection, a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Indie Next Pick, finalist for the B\u0026amp;N Discover Prize, and a Library Reads selection. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Kenyon Review, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She lives in Miami Beach with her spouse, writer Lars Horn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47916390089026,"sku":"","price":8.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/ordinarygirls.jpg?v=1709304688","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/ordinary-girls-a-memoir-jaquira-diaz","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}