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Sometimes a book is so warming, so charming and so
compulsively readable that it wins you over despite its
obvious flaws. Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez’s The Dirty
Girls Social Club is such a book. Smart, funny and
vibrant, it tells the tale of six college friends – all of
Latina background in some way – and their various lives,
loves and dramas.
Valdes-Rodriguez characters include
Lauren, a newspaper columnist with a cheating fiancé,
Elizabeth, a television anchorwoman and closeted lesbian,
and Sara, whose seemingly perfect life is tainted by a
controlling, abusive husband. Also in the mix is the uptight
magazine magnate Rebecca, the lovable but materialistic Usnavys and the singer Amber who identifies so strongly with
the indigenous people of Mexico that she changes her name to
Cuicatl. The women refer to themselves as sucias,
or dirty girls, and forge a tight bond that outlasts most of
the others in their lives.
_Library Journal
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