- Published: 14/04/2016
- ISBN: 9781846275432
- 135x20mm
- 288 pages
Mexican Hooker #1
Carmen Aguirre
At six years old Carmen Aguirre was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a man she couldn’t fully love. In her twenties she fought to find herself as an actress and break away from the stereotypes thrust upon her – housekeeper, hotel maid, Mexican Hooker #1.
But alongside these many identities was another that was hard to embrace and impossible to escape: that of the thirteen-year-old girl attacked by one of Canada’s most feared rapists. Thirty-three years after the assault, Carmen decided it was time to meet the man who changed her life.
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Aguirre retells her experience living as an activist in South America with brutal clarity and understated courage... Mexican Hooker #1 is devastating in its succession of deflated ideologies, peace and democracy being the first to go... Aguirre's words are not a gesture. They are a powerful victory, an uprising of the spirit, for survivors of abuse, and most importantly, for herself
Globe and Mail
Powerful... [this] is more than brave - it is dauntless, and Aguirre's telling of it, even in its devastating moments, accomplishes what she set out to do: integrate it all in order to bare her true self
National Post
Raw and vibrant, bursting with energy. Sex and love are examined candidly. Aguirre doesn't cut herself any slack and is utterly fearless, it appears, in revealing her desires and her mistakes. And sometimes her sexual escapades are just downright hilarious... Mexican Hooker #1 works on many engaging levels
Vancouver Sun
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One minute, 11-year-old Carmen is watching her hippy mum put curlers in for the first time, the next she is being dragged with her sister through LA airport with her mother muttering about ‘the patriarchy’ under her breath. The three of them board a plane that takes them to Peru, next door to the Chile from which the family had fled after Pinochet’s coup. Eight days after landing in Lima, and still perplexed by their mother’s disguises and lies, they’re off again, on a bus bound they know not where. They are then to spend most of the next decade, the 1980s, moving from dictatorship to dictatorship, evading capture, torture and peril at every turn. It is no way to spend your teenage years, until, overnight, it becomes the way Carmen herself chooses.
