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A review by readingwithmuggy
Does My Body Offend You? by Marie Marquardt, Mayra Cuevas
3.5
“These are the bodies we were born into. The bodies given to us by our mamis and our abuelas. What is so wrong with these bodies?”
This book follows two high school girls who couldn’t be more different from each other. Malena is from a tight knit Puerto Rican family that fled to Florida following a bad hurricane. She lives in a bigger body with a single working mom because her dad had to stay behind in Puerto Rico. Ruby is a skinny white girl who comes from a family of high achievers and “white saviors”.
A incident at the beginning of this story, brings this unlikely pair together to bring a change to sexist dress code at their school.
I love how this story really focuses on survivors & the idea that women are not to be blamed for men’s inappropriate behaviors. TW: There are depictions conversations around sexual assault. This book also dives into the complexity of racism, misogyny, social justice reform, the use of social media as advocacy & more.
Some of the dialogue was overly cheesy but I was willing to forgive it for the sake of the story and the overall meaning behind it.
This book follows two high school girls who couldn’t be more different from each other. Malena is from a tight knit Puerto Rican family that fled to Florida following a bad hurricane. She lives in a bigger body with a single working mom because her dad had to stay behind in Puerto Rico. Ruby is a skinny white girl who comes from a family of high achievers and “white saviors”.
A incident at the beginning of this story, brings this unlikely pair together to bring a change to sexist dress code at their school.
I love how this story really focuses on survivors & the idea that women are not to be blamed for men’s inappropriate behaviors. TW: There are depictions conversations around sexual assault. This book also dives into the complexity of racism, misogyny, social justice reform, the use of social media as advocacy & more.
Some of the dialogue was overly cheesy but I was willing to forgive it for the sake of the story and the overall meaning behind it.