Rebecca is Catholic and identifies as European Spanish though Lauren insists she looks like a Pueblo Indian. Lauren is half-Cuban and half-white, but she has to represent the Latinx community at her newspaper job, which means having to fit in the box set for her by white culture, though she tries to push the edges out little by little by educating people through her writing. Each woman has a different background and faces different challenges in her life. The sucias meet in the first chapter and then the other chapters alternate between their different points of view.
Honestly, that scene put me on edge the whole next day, so seriously… beware!
Where Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants has a relationship between a camper and counselor, Dirty Girls has an abusive spousal situation that gets pretty disturbing, so here’s your trigger warning. Because I was expecting chick lit, though, I wasn’t prepared for how dark it would get. The Dirty Girls Social club has a light, sarcastic tone that makes it pretty easy and fun to read. (You didn’t hear that from me.)”įor those who don’t know, Buena Sucia Social Club is a riff on the album Buena Vista Social Club released in 1997 by the ensemble of the same name.Īnyway, you can kinda get the vibe from that extract. But we think it’s funny, okay? Well, Rebecca doesn’t, but she’s about as funny as Hitler’s hemorrhoids. (I’m not.) We’re clever and, like, hip when it comes to pop culture, we sucias. It’s a pun, too, see, taken from the name of those old-as-dirt Cuban musicians who record with Ry Cooder and star in German documentaries, who every non-Latino I know thinks I am genetically predisposed to like. ‘ Buena sucia’ is actually pretty offensive to most Spanish-speaking people, akin to ‘big smelly ‘ho.’ So Buena Sucia Social Club is, how do you say, irreverent. “ Sucia means ‘dirty girl.’ Usnavys came up with it. Lauren describes the term sucia like this:
The Dirty Girls Social Club is about six women who call themselves the sucias: Lauren, Usnavys, Amber, Sara, Liz, and Rebecca who met in college and meet up once a year to talk about their lives. Imagine The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants but make all the girls Latina women in their late 20s and you have The Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes.
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