A review by bookreviewswithkb
My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

i…this book…i can’t… 🤯 
5/5 🦋 and a favorite. superior quality. must read. don’t miss out on this one. 

as much a memoir as an ode to the author’s family and an exploration of the impact of our societal injustices on individuals and family systems. “if Nuchi was public enemy number one, if our nation’s advancement depended upon stripping her bare - she, who had barely a thread to her name - then we were a soulless people, a cruel nation dancing upon its victims’ graves.” (on ‘welfare queens’)

Quiara Alegría Hudes’s writing is lyrical and beautiful; each sentence is a poem in and of itself to be read and reread and savored. i can’t imagine how much Quiara discovered about herself while writing this memoir, and am thankful for how open and honest and vulnerable she was in her writing. i wish i could meet her and her entire family - they seem like such magnificent human beings. 

this quote made me feel so seen —> “someone needed to check them, turn on the houselights and stop the show. but i stayed quiet as a confidante, a nonconfrontational good girl, the dutiful eldest, cooperative and diplomatic, every unvoiced retort piling up and burning.” 😫♥️
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