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Rosie Perez first captured our attention with her brutal dance in the name sequence of Do the Right Thing and has since defined herself as a funny and proficient actress who broke limitations for Latinas in the film industry. What most people would be amazed to learn is the fact the woman with the big, effervescent personality has a hidden knowledge straight out of the Dickens book. At the age of three, Rosie's life was switched upside down when her emotionally ill mother tore her away from the only family she recognized and located her in a Catholic children's home in New York's Westchester Region. Thus commenced her crazily discombobulated childhood of being shuttled between "the Home," where she and other kids experienced all manners of cruelty from nuns, and different relatives' flats in Brooklyn. Many in her circumstances would have been defined by these harrowing activities, but with the intense persistence that became her brand, Rosie overcame the chances and made an unbelievable life for herself. She brings her trip vividly to life in this memoir - from the radiant avenues of Brooklyn to her turbulent years in the Catholic home, and finally to film and Tv set models and the LA and New York City hip-hop scenes of the 1980s and '90s. Greater than a pause-resisting listen, Handbook for an Unstable Life is a story of success. By changes heartbreaking and funny, it is finally the inspirational tale of a woman who have found a hard-won host to strength and peacefulness.
