![]() She meets Amaury, who works as a drug dealer to support his family. Meanwhile, Lauren has broken up with her boyfriend after discovering that he’s cheating on her. Usnavys′ boyfriend Juan crashes the dinner and proposes to Usnavys. Lauren and Rebecca end up fighting, with Lauren accusing Rebecca of being judgmental and Rebecca admitting that her marriage is terrible and that she’s fallen in love with Andre, the black British man who is helping to finance her magazine. When Roberto discovers that Elisabeth has been to their home he assaults Sara and kicks her in the stomach causing her to miscarry.Īll the sucias minus Sara and Cuicatl (who is touring) meet in order to decide how best to offer Sara their support. When Elisabeth goes to Sara’s house to beg her for help from the paparazzi storm the two friends reunite. The other sucias rally around her but Sara’s husband Roberto forces her to break off the friendship out of jealousy. Meanwhile, Elisabeth, a successful news reporter, who has been hiding the fact that she is in love with Lauren, falls in love with another woman.Įventually Elisabeth is outed after a tabloid journalist catches her kissing a woman. Usnavys grows disenchanted with her boyfriend Juan who cannot afford to shower her with the luxuries she desires. Amber, chasing her dreams of becoming a prominent activist musician, changes her name to Cuicatl. Sara is hiding the fact that her marriage to her childhood sweetheart Roberto is not what it seems and that he has been growing increasingly erratic and violent. Rebecca, who runs a successful magazine aimed at Latina women called Ella, is struggling in her relationship with her unemployed, white, pseudo-liberal husband, Brad. Lauren, who works as a reporter for the Boston Globe, is struggling with an eating disorder and a noncommittal boyfriend but believes that the other women have their lives together. The novel begins with the women reuniting for one of their regular scheduled meetings. The friends have different racial and ethnic backgrounds, but find common ground due to their mutual Latina heritage and have nicknamed themselves the sucias (meaning dirty girls in Spanish) as a joke. The Dirty Girls Social Club is told in first person narration with the narration switching between six friends who all met in college: Lauren, Usnavys, Rebecca, Sara, Elisabeth and Amber. ![]() The book is also credited with launching a new movement in Chicano literature and inspiring a series of " chick lit" novels about Latina women dubbed "Chica lit." Contents ![]() Valdes-Rodriguez later wrote a sequel titled Dirty Girls on Top, which was published in 2008. The Dirty Girls Social Club is a 2003 novel by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.
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