I still feel like I could very easily go back to being that person. I also suffer from major depression, so every day is a struggle, even though every day is a blessing. It wasn't one thing that turned my life around - it was many different things, many different people who saved me again and again. It felt like I was always, from the very beginning, trying to turn my life around, and it took a lot of people and a lot of stumbling and a lot of mistakes, until finally there were fewer mistakes. It definitely didn't feel like I turned my life around. I want a family that loves me and shows it. A MEMOIR Jaquira Daz Discusses Ordinary Girls, Her Powerful Memoir of a Troubled Adolescence in Puerto Rico PROFILES. Ordinary Girls is a life story of astonishing honesty and beauty and power, a memoir of breath and rhythm and blood-red struggle, a book for everyone who has ever felt homesick inside their own skin, and for those who, like Daz, sing the marvelous song of themselves at top volume.

And I looked around and I thought this is what I want. And they were loving and happy - and he was happy in it. These were people who loved each other and weren't afraid to tell each other all the time, who hugged each other, who sat down to dinner and asked each other about their day. He took me home to meet his family, and I saw what a family was actually supposed to look like. Sold by: indoobestsellers 14.61 + 3.99 shipping Sold by: Prime Deals, USA See all 2 images Follow the Author Jaquira Díaz Ordinary Girls Muchachas ordinarias (Spanish edition): Memorias Paperback JSpanish Edition by Jaquira Díaz (Author), Laura Rivera Ayala (Translator) 3 ratings Kindle 9.

Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz