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In November of that year, infant Lazaro Figueroa’s body was discovered near Miami Beach.

So much of this debut memoir is haunted by the 1990 “ Baby Lollipops” murder. For a while there, we didn’t know if any of us would.įor these girls, now women, Díaz seems to be theorizing throughout this book, could have turned up under a bush next to some Miami Beach sidewalk. We are women now-those of us who are alive, the ones who made it. “Sometimes in dreams,” Jaquira Díaz writes in the preface, titled aptly “Girl Hood,” “I return to those girls, those places.” She continues:Īnd we are still there, all of us, roller-skating on the boardwalk, laying out our beach towels on the sand, dancing to Missy Elliott’s “Work It” under the full moon. Ordinary Girls is the story of girls becoming women who are anything but ordinary, even if they feel that way at the time of their childhood and adolescence.

‘Ordinary Girls: A Memoir’ by Jaquira Díaz