Irina Gonzalez

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Essay 6: The Dream of a Convertible Car [#52essays2017]

Posted on February 10, 2017November 3, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

This essay is part of the #52essays2017 series focusing on my memoir, Moscow Chica: How Growing Up in Cuba and Russia Made Me an American. For more, please follow this publication and subscribe to my newsletter. When my family moved to America in 1994, everything seemed great. Until it wasn’t. About a year after we came here, my parents separated and divorced. And although…

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Irina Gonzalez is a journalist, editor, and sober bisexual Latina mom with ADHD. She is the author of the Parenting in Hard Mode newsletter—for those of us who are raising social justice-minded families and getting real about mental health for parents navigating life on the difficult setting. She is also working on an upcoming book on impactful Latinx Americans with The Quarto Publishing Group.

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