The Dirty Girls Social Club

Plot summary

The Dirty Girls Social Club is told in first person narration with the narration switching between six friends who all met in college: Lauren, Usnavys, Rebecca, Sara, Elisabeth and Amber. The friends have different racial and ethnic backgrounds, but find common ground due to their mutual

The novel begins with the women reuniting for one of their regular scheduled meetings. Lauren, who works as a reporter for the

Eventually Elisabeth is outed after a tabloid journalist catches her kissing a woman. The other sucias rally around her but Sara’s husband Roberto forces her to break off the friendship out of jealousy. When Elisabeth goes to Sara’s house to beg her for help from the paparazzi storm the two friends reunite. When Roberto discovers that Elisabeth has been to their home he assaults Sara and kicks her in the stomach causing her to miscarry.

All the sucias minus Sara and Cuicatl (who is touring) meet in order to decide how best to offer Sara their support. Lauren and Rebecca end up fighting, with Lauren accusing Rebecca of being judgmental and Rebecca admitting that her marriage is terrible and that she’s fallen in love with Andre, the black British man who is helping to finance her magazine. Usnavys′ boyfriend Juan crashes the dinner and proposes to Usnavys. She accepts.

Meanwhile, Lauren has broken up with her boyfriend after discovering that he’s cheating on her. She meets Amaury, who works as a drug dealer to support his family. She helps him get a job working for Cuicatl as part of her street team.

The novel closes six months after the start of the book with Usnavys married, Rebecca engaged, Cuicatl, Lauren and Elisabeth in relationships and Sara single but in recovery having launched her own interior design business.

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