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Author
Publisher
Celebra
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Newly single and ready to embrace life, George Lopez was excited to turn fifty. He spent his entire forty-ninth year waiting for the calendar to flip to that magic number. It would be a welcome new phase in his life, a chance to say goodbye to a decade that included a kidney transplant and a divorce. But when he looked around a room full of his childhood friends, all gathered to celebrate his birthday, many now bald or overweight, it suddenly hit...
Author
Publisher
Atria Español
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"En este libro de memorias llenas de humor y sentimiento, la comediante, escritora y productora Cristela Alonzo comparte relatos personales de su formación como una mexicoestadounidense de primera generación que creció en Texas y persiguió sus sueños para dedicarse a la comedia. Cuando Cristela Alonzo y su familia vivían como invasores en una cafetería abandonada, solo tenían dos lujos: una televisión y una radio, que se convirtieron en la...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Cristela Alonzo and her family lived as squatters in an abandoned diner, they only had two luxuries: a television and a radio, which became her pop cultural touchstone and a guiding light. Cristela shares her experiences and struggles of being a first-generation American, her dreams of becoming a comedian, and how it feels to be a creator in a world that often minimizes people of color and women. Her stories range from the ridiculous-like the...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A poignant and moving memoir-in-essays from stand-up comedian Aida Rodriguez on the power of overcoming hardship and transforming pain into laughter. Aida Rodriguez has, to put it mildly, lived a whirlwind life. Her rags to-riches story is mind-blowing: She was kidnapped as a child by her mother in the Dominican Republic and brought to the US. She was later kidnapped again by her grandmother and uncle, and moved from New York to Florida. As an adult,...
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