I was thrilled to receive this book as a Goodread's giveaway since I'd read Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, with my Nanaimo CFUW Women's Issues Reading Group in March 2013. Carmen Aguirre is a Vancouver-based theatre artist who has worked extensively in North and South America. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a generous-hearted man she couldn't fully love.

It’s no wonder that drama infuses every aspect of Carmen Aguirre’s life as she’s an actor and playwright, but once you factor in revolutionary, things get ramped up to a frantic level. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. It's difficult to understand what this book is really about until you're already too far in to get out. Trying to make it professionally in the world of drama is immensely difficult, but Aguirre just keeps at it. Initially I wanted more of this book to be about her adventures in the Southern Hemisphere but realized there was a totally different story to be told.The mainstream life inhabited my head and lived on my skin, the refugee life in my heart, guts, and womb. 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. Yet, I came away from the book with respect and admiration for Carmen Aguirre, for telling her story and for her strength. A stunning follow-up to Carmen Aguirre's bestselling and Canada Reads-winning first book, Something Fierce . It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.

S. both as a child and as an adult looking for work give insight into the difficult experience of the undocumented.Aguirre joins Shad to discuss her powerful account of past traumas, how she's reclaimed them to tell her own story, and why she didn't grow up thinking that breaking down was an option. How she was treated by authorities, needs to be continually improved, as I was aghast at what this young girl was put through after her most traumatizing experience. Those "memories" come as childhood moments, from the time you love your parents so much they are unfailable.