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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