La Bloga: Review: Malin Alegria, Estrella’s Quinceañeara

“I’ve never been a fourteen-year old girl but my daughter was, and she didn’t want a quinceañera, and that was that. Based on a recent NY Times article on over the top 15añeras (”I got a Lexus” one 15 year old exults), Sister Chicas (that I reviewed two weeks ago, in La Bloga), and Estrella’s Quinceañerea, I’m relieved not to have been through all this.

But Estrella Alvarez’ mother and aunt immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico during their adolescent years and as a result they never could afford a fancy fifteenth birthday. Thus, as the two sisters sit at a neigbor girl’s fancy dress extravanga, all they can talk about is how wonderful Estrella’s quince will be.”

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