For the assignment, I chose the 2019 National Public Radio interview In New Memoir ‘Ordinary Girls,’ Jaquira Díaz Searches For Home that features Jaquira Diaz touching on her book Ordinary Girls with Steve Inskeep, hosted by Rachel Martin. In the 7 minute interview, Diaz touches on the difficult portions of her childhood and a specific chapter detailing her life at 14, where she learned ways to protect herself and keep herself alive in a traumatic and violent environment. Ordinary Girls is a memoir detailing the discovery of a atypical identity in an environment where that might have some extremely severe consequences. Listening to this source and reading the transcript has helped me to understand Diaz’ perspective and her position on her childhood. She mentions a moment where she returned to her home in El Caserío and a boy told her that she doesn’t belong there anymore and needs to leave right now. She says that she agrees, and this shows that she has processed her trauma and developed the ability to move on from such a difficult environment and move forward with her life. This has made me want to read the book combined with my previous research into other works by Diaz with last week’s assignment.

This source passes the CRAAP test. It is an interview with the author herself, Jaquira Diaz, Morning Review, a section of the popular well-regarded nonprofit media organization National Public Radio. Diaz herself is speaking about her own book with questions prompted by the presenter, and being that she is the primary source, this makes the information credible and reliable. The information is current as it comes from a very recent broadcast (2019) and does not require further information as a result.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/774306278

Martin, R. (2019, October 29). In New Memoir ‘Ordinary Girls,’ Jaquira Díaz Searches For Home . Morning Edition. Washington D.C., District of Columbia; National Public Radio.