Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

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The winner of CBC’s Canada Reads 2012, Something Fierce by Carmen Aguirre, re-issued by Vintage Canada.      

Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre fled to Canada together with her circle of relatives following General Augusto Pinochet’s violent 1973 coup in Chile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South The usa as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister went with them, briefly assuming double lives of their very own. At 18, Carmen become a militant herself, plunging further into an international of terror, paranoia and euphoria.

Something Fierce
takes the reader within war-ridden Peru, dictator-ruled Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet’s Chile within the eventful decade between 1979 and 1989. Dramatic, suspenseful and darkly comic, this is a rare first-hand account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting.

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