{"product_id":"something-fierce-carmen-aguirre-9780345813824","title":"Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER (\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book  2011]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year  2011]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book  2011]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA BBC Radio Book of the Week  October 2011]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the CBC's 15 Memoirs by Canadian Women Worth Reading  2015]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSix-year-old Carmen Aguirre fled to Canada with her family following General Augusto Pinochet's violent 1973 coup in Chile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister went with them, quickly assuming double lives of their own. At 18, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia and euphoria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomething Fierce\u003c\/i\u003e takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictator-ruled Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet's Chile in the eventful decade between 1979 and 1989. Dramatic, suspenseful and darkly comic, it is a rare first-hand account of revolutionary life and a passionate argument against forgetting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carmen Aguirre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0345813820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345813824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Books Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Carmen Aguirre","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946533060863,"sku":"9780345813824","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_54185d49-8f7a-4520-8a9b-5e3e253333b3.jpg?v=1681513689","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/something-fierce-carmen-aguirre-9780345813824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}