I cared about books and music and monsters and not much of anything else.” Sleeping-on-the-floor-until-somebody-threw-out-a-sofabed poor.”Īs she enters her teens, Diaz writes, ”I was the loud, angry one, the one who always got into fights, fought over anything, everything. Her family’s fortunes were always precarious, but when they move to Miami Beach, they become “the kind of poor you could feel in your bones, your teeth, your stomach.
Grandma Mercy, her mother’s mother, could be crushingly cruel, Diaz writes: “My grandmother was the first person to ever call me n-.” Abuela and Jaqui’s father are black, while her mother’s side of the family is white. Safe haven for young Jaqui is her Abuela, her paternal grandmother, a strong and nurturing presence. Her vivacious, beautiful mother spent years slowly sinking into mental illness and addiction and was often violent toward her husband and three children. But her family’s home was a battleground.
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