I wanted to make a post for this memoir that I just finished reading. I did a search and didn’t find any previous posts.
This book was such a great read. It describes a Puerto Rican girl’s struggle through a childhood of poverty with a mentally ill mother. It really tells a type of story that doesn’t get a lot of mainstream attention, a story of an underrepresented people. I really appreciated the perspective. It was also not written purely chronologically, it jumped around a little bit focused on specific incidents that really affected the girl as she grew up. I enjoyed that aspect because it felt more true to how we experience our past.
by Shanacan