My Broken Language: A Memior by Quiara Alegria Hudes

My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Quiara Alegria Hudes' biography/memoir contains her life as a child of a Jewish father and Spanish mother but the world she lives in is what she writes so compelling about---history her activist Puerto Rican mother has told her and shown her over the years. Using stories we learn about her life in North Philadelphia and her time in Malvern, we learn about the barrio, the many players in the life the author wants to know more about and read/write/sing about.

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This Raging Light by Estelle Laure

This Raging Light by Estelle Laure
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

OMG I loved this book! Lucille and Wren have been abandoned by both parents, they don't know where they are, when they are returning, it doesn't get much worse. When money runs out and the bills are due, Lucille gets a job and her best friend, Eden, watches Wren until she can't anymore. What is even more complicated is that Lucille is irrevocably in love with Eden's twin, Digby, who has a girlfriend. This story will tear at your heart, you will rage at why life sucks for these girls but you will also root for them as some pretty amazing "things" begin to happen to/for Lucille & Wren. I could not put this book down, I loved the characters, their lives were real, gritty and once they stopped keeping secrets, life became a little bit more bearable for them as they found out the true meaning of family. It takes a village. Highly recommended!!!

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