ORDINARY GIRLS: A MEMOIR
Book ID/图书代码： 00342519C00008
English Summary/英文概要： Growing up poor and queer in Puerto Rico, Jaquira Díaz just wanted a family, a place where she felt she belonged. But as her parents struggled with addiction and making ends meet, things began to fall apart. Striking out at others and running away from home, turning on those who loved her, Díaz just wanted to be an ordinary girl. Ordinary Girls is Díaz’s memoir about family and friendship, about growing up with a mother suffering from schizophrenia and addiction who didn’t know how to raise her biracial children. It’s about girlhood in dangerous Puerto Rican housing projects and working-class neighborhoods of Miami Beach. It’s about juvenile delinquency, love, and fighting—fighting on the streets, and fighting hard to be seen for who you really are. Jaquira’s story is about survival in a world that doesn’t care if you make it, and telling that same world that you will somehow make it anyway. It’s about the bonds of friendship and sisterhood, and elevating those sustaining bloodlines into high art.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Jaquira Diaz在波多黎各长大，她只想要一个家庭，一个让她有归属感的地方。但她的父母染上了毒瘾，家庭入不敷出，一切开始分崩离析。打击别人，离家出走，背叛那些爱她的人，Diaz只想做一个普通的女孩。本书是Diaz关于家庭和友谊的回忆录，讲述了一个患有精神分裂症和毒瘾的母亲不知道如何抚养混血儿的故事。作者在危险的波多黎各住房项目时期，在迈阿密海滩的工人阶级社区度过了自己的少女时代。书中涉及青少年犯罪、爱情和打架——在街上打架，努力让别人看到你真正的样子。Jaquira的故事关于在一个不在乎你能否成功的世界里生存，并告诉那个世界你无论如何都会成功。故事还涉及友谊和姐妹情谊的纽带，并将这些元素提升为了高雅艺术。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“（本书）应该进入你的必读书目。Diaz是一位写作高手……她以新鲜而坦诚的笔触探讨了绝望、压抑、爱和希望，鲜明的人物刻画将久久萦绕在你的心头。”——O: The Oprah Magazine
“每隔一段时间便会有一部出色的回忆录出版，而今年秋天，便是这部《平凡女孩》。本书讲述了一个普通的女孩，它也是所有非凡女孩的故事。Diaz是一位出色的作家，本书极具内涵，包含了身份结构、白人优越感、殖民主义、女性反抗等多种深刻的主题。”——BuzzFeed
“本书深入探讨了坚持的力量。”——Time（2019年秋天最受期待的书单）
“[Ordinary Girls] belongs on your must-read lists. Díaz is a masterful writer . . . Writing with refreshing honesty, she talks about despair, depression, love, and hope with such vibrancy that her vivid portrayal will stay with you long after the final page.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Every once in a while, a truly electric debut memoir comes along, and this fall, Ordinary Girls is it. It’s the story of an ordinary girl; it’s the story of all of the extraordinary girls. Díaz is a skilled writer; the depth of layering is strong, from the details to the larger structures of identity, white supremacy, colonialism, and brown, queer, and femme resilience and resistance.”—BuzzFeed
“Díaz does not flinch with the hard-hitting details of growing up in communities that deserve our wholehearted attention. She complicates how we imagine girlhood and offers a beautiful memoir written with so much love, compassion and intelligence. This book is a necessary read at a time where the system and the media is so often working against the survival of women of color. This book burns in the memory and makes one feel all the feelings. A triumph!"—Bustle (Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana)
“A dynamic examination of the power of persistence.”—Time (Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019)
About the Author/作者介绍： Jaquira Diaz，出生于波多黎各。她的作品曾发表在《滚石》《卫报》等众多报刊杂志上，并被收录在《2016年美国最佳散文》中。她是两项小推车奖的获得者，还获得过伊丽莎白•乔治基金会拨款，以及来自麦克道尔殖民地、凯尼恩评论和威斯康辛创意写作研究所的奖学金。她和她的伴侣，作家Lars Horn住在迈阿密海滩。
Jaquira Diaz was born in Puerto Rico. Her work has been published in Rolling Stone, the Guardian, Longreads, the Fader, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and included in The Best American Essays 2016. 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 partner, the writer Lars Horn.
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