A teenage revolutionary's gripping, darkly comic account of life, love and fighting for freedom in Latin America in the 1980s
Carmen Aguirre is a celebrated playwright and actress. She has written or co-written eighteen plays and she had a lead role in Quinceanera, winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Something Fierce is her first book. She lives in Vancouver.
"Aguirre's riveting memoir chronicles her childhood as the daughter
of Chilean resistance fighters. ...Aguirre's writing is splendid;
she combines black humor and a sharp intellect and tells her
powerful story in grand style."--"Publishers Weekly"
"A moving, heart-racing journey through the political landscape of
South America during the 70s and 80s told by a brave daughter of
the Chilean resistance. An inspiration to anyone who strives to
live a life of passion and purpose." --Camilla Gibb, author of
Sweetness in the Belly
"Aguirre's story is the personal experience of a brave young
woman...Something Fierce is raw, courageously honest and funny; an
insightful journey into the formation of a revolutionary soul."
--"The Globe and Mail"
"A coming-of-age story that blends birthday parties and puppy love
with indoctrination in the tradecraft of subversion: how to arrange
the delivery of secret documents, how to lose a police tail, how to
lead a double life." --"Toronto Star"
"Carmen writes like someone who knows how it feels to exhale with
no certainty that another breath will follow...The stories that
fill this book feel like the stories of several lives, not the
adventurous, exhilarating and harrowing adolescence and early
adulthood of one extraordinary person." --"National Post"
"[Aguirre] has crafted a narrative packed with suspense, emotion,
and dollops of sardonic humour. Even better, her searing memoir
conveys the confusion and heartache of adolescence alongside the
violent upheavals of Latin America during the late 1970s...Never
polemical or self-pitying, Aguirre has written a crisp, dramatic
account of growing up under extraordinary circumstances." --"Quill
& Quire"
"Aguirre's writing is, indeed, something fierce. That she has
finally told this story is a triumph. This extraordinary book is
four texts in one: a hilarious, pelvis-rocking story of a young
girl on an impassioned journey into womanhood, a harrowing
testamen
"A moving, heart-racing journey through the political landscape of
South America during the 70s and 80s told by a brave daughter of
the Chilean resistance. An inspiration to anyone who strives to
live a life of passion and purpose." --Camilla Gibb, author of
Sweetness in the Belly
"Aguirre's story is the personal experience of a brave young
woman...Something Fierce is raw, courageously honest and funny; an
insightful journey into the formation of a revolutionary soul."
--"The Globe and Mail"
"A coming-of-age story that blends birthday parties and puppy love
with indoctrination in the tradecraft of subversion: how to arrange
the delivery of secret documents, how to lose a police tail, how to
lead a double life." --"Toronto Star"
"Carmen writes like someone who knows how it feels to exhale with
no certainty that another breath will follow...The stories that
fill this book feel like the stories of several lives, not the
adventurous, exhilarating and harrowing adolescence and early
adulthood of one extraordinary person." --"National Post"
"[Aguirre] has crafted a narrative packed with suspense, emotion,
and dollops of sardonic humour. Even better, her searing memoir
conveys the confusion and heartache of adolescence alongside the
violent upheavals of Latin America during the late 1970s...Never
polemical or self-pitying, Aguirre has written a crisp, dramatic
account of growing up under extraordinary circumstances." --"Quill
& Quire"
"Aguirre's writing is, indeed, something fierce. That she has
finally told this story is a triumph. This extraordinary book is
four texts in one: a hilarious, pelvis-rocking story of a young
girl on an impassioned journey into womanhood, a harrowing
testament to the physical and mental labours involved in
underground revolutionary work, a history of a Latin America
ravaged by dictatorship and neoliberal economics, and a deeply
loving memoir of a family."--Karen Connelly, author of "The Lizard
Cage" and "Ther
"Aguirre's riveting memoir chronicles her childhood as the daughter
of Chilean resistance fighters. ...Aguirre's writing is splendid;
she combines black humor and a sharp intellect and tells her
powerful story in grand style."--"Publishers Weekly"
"A moving, heart-racing journey through the political landscape of
South America during the 70s and 80s told by a brave daughter of
the Chilean resistance. An inspiration to anyone who strives to
live a life of passion and purpose." --Camilla Gibb, author of
Sweetness in the Belly
"Aguirre's story is the personal experience of a brave young
woman...Something Fierce is raw, courageously honest and funny; an
insightful journey into the formation of a revolutionary soul."
--"The Globe and Mail"
"A coming-of-age story that blends birthday parties and puppy love
with indoctrination in the tradecraft of subversion: how to arrange
the delivery of secret documents, how to lose a police tail, how to
lead a double life." --"Toronto Star"
"Carmen writes like someone who knows how it feels to exhale with
no certainty that another breath will follow...The stories that
fill this book feel like the stories of several lives, not the
adventurous, exhilarating and harrowing adolescence and early
adulthood of one extraordinary person." --"National Post"
"[Aguirre] has crafted a narrative packed with suspense, emotion,
and dollops of sardonic humour. Even better, her searing memoir
conveys the confusion and heartache of adolescence alongside the
violent upheavals of Latin America during the late 1970s...Never
polemical or self-pitying, Aguirre has written a crisp, dramatic
account of growing up under extraordinary circumstances." --"Quill
& Quire"
"Aguirre's writing is, indeed, something fierce. That she has
finally told this story is a triumph. This extraordinary book is
four texts in one: a hilarious, pelvis-rocking story of a young
girl on an impassioned journey into womanhood, a harrowing
testamen
"A moving, heart-racing journey through the political landscape of
South America during the 70s and 80s told by a brave daughter of
the Chilean resistance. An inspiration to anyone who strives to
live a life of passion and purpose." --Camilla Gibb, author of
Sweetness in the Belly
"Aguirre's story is the personal experience of a brave young
woman...Something Fierce is raw, courageously honest and funny; an
insightful journey into the formation of a revolutionary soul."
--"The Globe and Mail"
"A coming-of-age story that blends birthday parties and puppy love
with indoctrination in the tradecraft of subversion: how to arrange
the delivery of secret documents, how to lose a police tail, how to
lead a double life." --"Toronto Star"
"Carmen writes like someone who knows how it feels to exhale with
no certainty that another breath will follow...The stories that
fill this book feel like the stories of several lives, not the
adventurous, exhilarating and harrowing adolescence and early
adulthood of one extraordinary person." --"National Post"
"[Aguirre] has crafted a narrative packed with suspense, emotion,
and dollops of sardonic humour. Even better, her searing memoir
conveys the confusion and heartache of adolescence alongside the
violent upheavals of Latin America during the late 1970s...Never
polemical or self-pitying, Aguirre has written a crisp, dramatic
account of growing up under extraordinary circumstances." --"Quill
& Quire"
"Aguirre's writing is, indeed, something fierce. That she has
finally told this story is a triumph. This extraordinary book is
four texts in one: a hilarious, pelvis-rocking story of a young
girl on an impassioned journey into womanhood, a harrowing
testament to the physical and mental labours involved in
underground revolutionary work, a history of a Latin America
ravaged by dictatorship and neoliberal economics, and a deeply
loving memoir of a family."--Karen Connelly, author of "The Lizard
Cage" and "Ther
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