Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
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To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a rickety car or mingling with underworld fixers. Her family appeared to be an unbreakable gang of five. One day they were in Australia, the next in South Africa, the pattern repeating as they crossed continents, changed identities, and erased their pasts. What Diamond didn’t yet know was that she was born into a family of outlaws fleeing from the highest international law enforcement agencies, a family with secrets that would eventually catch up to all of them.
By the time she was in her teens, Diamond had lived dozens of lives and lies, but as she grew older, love and trust turned to fear and violence, and her family—the only people she had in the world—began to unravel. She started to realize that her life itself might be a big con, and the people she loved, the most dangerous of all. With no way out and her identity burned so often that she had no proof she even existed, all that was left was a girl from nowhere.
Surviving would require her to escape, and to do so Diamond would have to unlearn all the rules she grew up with. Wild, heartbreaking, and often unexpectedly funny, Nowhere Girl is an impossible-to-believe true story of self-discovery and triumph.
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Cheryl Diamond. (2021). Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood. Algonquin Books.
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Cheryl Diamond is now a citizen of Luxembourg and lives between there and Rome. Her behind-the-scenes account of life as a teenage model, Model: A Memoir, was published in 2008. Diamond´s second book, Naked Rome, reveals the Eternal City through the eyes of its most fascinating people. Her new book, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood, is available now.
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- By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . .
To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a rickety car or mingling with underworld fixers. Her family appeared to be an unbreakable gang of five. One day they were in Australia, the next in South Africa, the pattern repeating as they crossed continents, changed identities, and erased their pasts. What Diamond didn’t yet know was that she was born into a family of outlaws fleeing from the highest international law enforcement agencies, a family with secrets that would eventually catch up to all of them.
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Surviving would require her to escape, and to do so Diamond would have to unlearn all the rules she grew up with. Wild, heartbreaking, and often unexpectedly funny, Nowhere Girl is an impossible-to-believe true story of self-discovery and triumph. - reviews
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Host of the popular advice column "�Hola Papi!" on Substack, Brammer offers a memoir-in-essays, tracking what it's like to grow up as a queer, mixed-race Chicano kid in America's heartlands (75,000-copy first printing). In The Profession, originally scheduled for fall 2020 and written with Turnaround coauthor Knobler, Bratton tracks a career that led to his being police commissioner in New York City. Burns proclaims Where You Are Is Not Who You Are, sharing where she's been and what she's learned as the first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company (75,000-copy first printing). Former teen model Diamond (Naked Rome) reveals a childhood both wacky and cliff-hanging in Nowhere Girl; on the run with an outlaw family, she lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities, by age nine (50,000-copy first printing). Twitter-famous Henderson offers The Ugly Cry to tell us about being raised Black in a mostly white community by tough grandparents after her mother abandoned her. Today show news anchor Melvin uses Pops to explore issues of race and fatherhood while recalling his own dad (100,000-copy first printing). Founder of Chicago's Dreamcatcher Foundation, which assists young people in disadvantaged areas, Myers-Powell recalls a childhood fractured by her mother's death and a life of pimps and parties before finally Leaving Breezy Street (75,000-copy first printing). Growing up scary smart if poor and emotionally unsupported, James Edward Plummer renamed himself Hakeem Muata Oluseyi to honor his African heritage and now leads A Quantum Life as a NASA physicist. In House of Sticks, Tran recalls leaving Vietnam as a toddler in 1993 and growing up in Queens, helping her mom as a manicurist and eventually graduating from Columbia (100,000-copy first printing). In As a Woman, Williams, a celebrated speaker on gender equity and LGTBQ+ issues, describes the decision to transition from male to female as a 60-year-old husband, father, and pastor (60,000-copy first printing).
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Former model Diamond (Naked Rome) offers a transfixing chronicle of her coming-of-age bouncing from city to city and country to country to outrun the authorities. Her family—a tight band of five comprising her parents, sister, and brother—lived a life straight out of a thriller that was marked by false identities, financial schemes, deep mistrust, and a desperation to avoid Interpol officers. “By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities,” she writes. As her family flitted from India to South Africa to America—committing forgery and fraud along the way—she was taught how to survive through judo lessons and a detailed escape plan (which she was entrusted with at age 13) to use “if everything goes to hell”—but she never learned her parents’ real names to protect them and herself. In a propulsive, at times harrowing, narrative, Diamond recounts the tutelage of her psychologically abusive father, how she went from being homeless to a successful fashion model in New York City, and a debilitating illness that devastated her mind and body in her early 20s. Eloquent and bracing, Diamond’s story will haunt readers long after the last page.
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Diamond (Model: A Memoir) describes the incredible story of her childhood spent on the run. Born in New Zealand, to parents and siblings who were already living under assumed identities, Diamond (using a fake birth certificate) travels with her family from India to Australia to South Africa to Canada to Germany. Her parents' source of income is nebulous, but somehow relates to the gold bullion market. Her father, who determines the family's trajectory, is alternately cryptic and grandiose, coldly critical and physically abusive. Diamond effectively conveys an atmosphere of psychological suspense as she begins to unravel the events that led to her parents' fugitive status. Their lives crater in Virginia during Diamond's teenage years. There her brother Frank, who sexually abused her, inexplicably disappears, and her sister Chiara runs away and threatens to expose the family. Diamond escapes to New York to try modeling but cannot extricate herself from her parents. She sensitively traces her diagnosis of Crohn's disease and her life with chronic illness, along with her fraught decision to finally escape her family and claim a legal identity and citizenship. VERDICT Diamond's memoir is compulsively readable; for fans of suspense novels or memoirs like Tyler Wetherall's No Way Home.--Barrie Olmstead, Lewiston P.L., ID
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Diamond has always been caught between the Con Man and the Cop. Hers was a life lived on the lam, either eluding the henchmen hired by her maternal grandfather to return her family to his iron-fisted control in Luxembourg, or evading Interpol officers out to arrest her father for myriad financial schemes. The family was always prepared for the middle-of-the-night knock on the door that would send them scrambling for their stash of fake passports, with their belongings either crammed into suitcases or stashed in storage lockers around the globe. As a result, Diamond learned how to spot a surveillance tail before she could recite her ABCs. Eventually, penniless and homeless, she parlayed her emaciated body and bruised beauty into a career as a teen model, only to have the accumulated stress of such an uncertain existence manifest in a life-threatening illness that would force her to reconcile with one of the two men responsible for her condition. The survivor of extreme psychological and physical abuse, Diamond recounts her lifelong struggle to discover her true self in a beyond-harrowing memoir. Within the autobiographical subset of children-overcoming-adversity that was defined by Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle (2005) and Tara Westover's Educated (2018), Diamond's tale might just be the most mind-blowing of them all.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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