![]() ![]() As a nice touch, the Dirty Girls have not only diverse personalities but cultures and backgrounds–Amber is a goth Mexica rocker with working class roots, Liz a gorgeous Black Colombian, Sara a rich white Cuban Jew, Becca a New Mexican Hispanic princess, Usnavys a Puerto Rican plus-size diva, and finally Lauren is half Cuban-exile, half-American trailer park, all disaster. There’s the same sense of camaraderie, a similar tone as the book nods to life as a modern, professional woman who also wants love and family and a decent place to live, preferably without racism kicking your ass as you do it. I don’t like drawing comparisons, but it’s a bit like a Latina Waiting To Exhale. Every one of them is keeping secrets, and the plot of the book predictably follows their lives as the truth comes out, bit by bit. ![]() Some are family women, some are professionals, some are lovestruck…and all are liars. Take, for example, the protagonists of The Dirty Girls Social Club–six very grown, very successful Latinas in Boston. ![]() We’re told not to lie for our entire childhoods, then we grow up and realize almost no-one is ever entirely honest about what’s really going on with them. ![]() You know what the weirdest thing about being an adult is? It’s that nobody ever really tells the whole truth. ![]()
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