A stunning follow-up to Carmen Aguirre's bestselling first memoir,
Something Fierce. A powerful, heartfelt, and grippingly honest memoir
of finding meaning in life and developing the strength to confront a
childhood trauma.
Carmen Aguirre has lived many lives, all of them to the fullest. At age
six she was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life as a Latina in North
America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident. In her early
twenties she fought to find her voice as an actor and to break away from
the stereotypical roles thrust upon her--Housekeeper, Hotel Maid,
Mexican Hooker #1. Aguirre became a writer, a director, an actor, and
then a mother, but alongside her many multi-faceted identities was
another that was unbearable to embrace yet impossible to escape: that of
the thirteen-year-old girl attacked by one of Canada's most feared
rapists. Thirty-three years after the assault, Aguirre decided it was
time to meet the man who changed her life.
Fierce, funny, and enlightening, Aguirre interweaves her account of
overcoming the attack that shook her world with a host of stories of
life and love. From the end of the Chilean revolutionary dream to life
among the Chicano theatre scene of Los Angeles; from the child who was
made the victim of a terrible crime to the artist who found the courage
to confront her assailant, Aguirre tells a story of strength and
survival that will leave you speechless.
