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. Ordinary Girls is a fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author. 'There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.' -Julia Alvarez With a story reminiscent of Tara Westover's Educate and Roxane Gay's Hunger, celebrated writer Jaquira Díaz triumphantly maps a way out of despair toward love and hope and delivers a memoir that reads as electrically as a novel.
