82.īooklist, April 1, 2003, Meredith Parets, review of The Dirty Girls Social Club, p. BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES: PERIODICALSīook, May-June, 2003, Mikita Brottman, review of The Dirty Girls Social Club, p. Valdez-Rodriguez' second novel, Playing with Boys, was published in the fall of 2004, and focuses on the lives of L.A.-based Latina entertainment professionals. Noting that Valdes-Rodriguez tells her novel in "six distinct voices and points of view," Shelley Mosley praised The Dirty Girls Social Club in Library Journal as "a universal friendship book, crossing cultural lines as the characters advise, comfort, and support each other." Citing the book as an "engaging novel" featuring "fast-paced dialogue and a pop-culture sensibility," Book contributor Mikita Brottman added that Valdes-Rodriguez's "heroines transcend stereotypes." In Library Journal, Shelley Mosley dubbed The Dirty Girls Social Club "a universal friendship book, crossing cultural lines as the characters advise, comfort, and support each other." As Valdez-Rodriquez told Carina Chocano in Entertainment Weekly, "If somebody asked me what my message is, I would say that it's that Latinos are as diverse as the world." At their bi-annual gathering in Boston, the women unite to discusses their quandaries and their triumphs, and amid the camaraderie some hidden tensionsĮmerge.
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The six "sucias," or "dirty girls," each have unique lives and problems: Spanish-Amerindian Rebecca, the founder and editor of a Latin women's magazine, is grappling with a failing marriage to a Marxist academic Puerto Rican material girl Usnavys is an ambitious executive at United Way Mexican-American Amber is a struggling musician Colombian-born Elizabeth hosts a Boston morning TV show and has become a born-again Christian half-Cuban Lauren is a feisty newspaper columnist and Sara, from a wealthy Jewish-Cuban family, is a stay-at-home mom dealing with an abusive husband. The Dirty Girls Social Club follows the lives of six Latino friends, now in their late twenties, who met while students at Boston University. Her debut novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, captivated many reviewers and readers when it was released in 2003, and the film rights were quickly optioned by Columbia Pictures. Stints as a reporter for the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times followed, until Valdez-Rodriguez determined that she would rather retire with her husband and moved to the mountains of New Mexico to write. After graduating from high school, she studied at Boston's Berklee College of Music, and went on to get a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University.
The daughter of a sociologist and a poet, Valdes-Rodriguez moved around as a child, even living in Glasgow, Scotland for a time. WORK IN PROGRESS:Īlisa Valdes-Rodriguez was born in 1969 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2004.įilm rights to The Dirty Girls Social Club were optioned by Jennifer Lopez/Columbia Pictures. 1994-98 Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, reporter, 1998-2001 Albuquerque Tribune, Albuquerque, NM, features editor, beginning 2001. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010. Hobbies and other interests: Playing tenor sax. Education: Berklee College of Music, graduated, c. Valdes (a sociologist) and Maxine Conant (a poet) married husband's name Patrick children: Alexander. Born 1969, in Albuquerque, NM daughter of Nelson P.
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