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In Embrace That Girl, first-time Spanish-American author Cris Ramos Greene tells the heartfelt and humorous story of navigating adulthood and searching for meaning and love in Miami.
Embrace That Girl is available in paperback on Amazon and digitally on Kindle.
Cris has just turned 30, and she is sitting in a self-help seminar in a drab hotel near Miami International Airport. She’s looking for answers, some affirmation and maybe a sliver of absolution — and wine. Thirty wasn’t supposed to feel like this. Surely, she should be more certain of her place in the world, an established writer, maybe even a mother — she definitely shouldn’t be eating cereal for dinner. But Cris is ready to do what it takes to create the life she wants.
In Embrace That Girl, the first time Spanish-American author tells the heartfelt and humorous story of her search for meaning, love, and gainful employment. Greene likes to think of it as a Hispanic Me Talk Pretty One Day meets a modern Eat Pray Love for the 2020s.
A second-generation immigrant whose parents were born in Cuba, Greene recounts her life as a 20-something in Miami, from graduating college in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession to the disappointment of having to move back in with her parents after a career setback. Along the way, Greene feigns bilingualism, navigates love triangles, career letdowns and does what it takes to date in Miami (like delving into tarot, superstition, and Santeria)
As Greene, whose friends once called her Ms. QLC (for Quarter Life Crisis), enters her third decade, she begins to realize an important lesson: there is no way to get out of doing the work yourself. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.
She writes: “Nothing is random and I am creating everything. It’s obvious that this, like all the other circumstances in my life, was sourced by me. I chose all of it. I chose each job and each boss I had. I chose all my great loves and not-so-great loves. I chose my friends.
I chose Jacob. I literally picked everything out just so. I did it. It wasn’t magic that healed me and it wasn’t the card reading that changed my life. It was me all along.”
At an unprecedented and uncertain moment in history when many young people are reevaluating who they are and who they can dare to be, Greene reminds readers that embracing “That Girl” in the mirror is essential for moving forward.
About the author
Cris Ramos Greene is a Spanish-American writer whose writing about travel, relationships, and Miami culture has been published in Thought Catalog, The New Tropic, and BuzzFeed Community. After working for several Miami-based advertising agencies specializing in reaching the Hispanic market for clients like Dunkin’ Donuts, the US Census and Ford, Greene switched gears and forged a career in Miami’s dynamic art world, helping to raise the profile of Wynwood and Allapatah, the magical hubs of Miami’s alternative art scene, and interviewing female artists, like Cheryl Pope and Zoila Darton, for exhibitions like FAIR, an alternative, non-commercial contemporary art fair in Miami.
For more information,visit www.thecrisramos.com.
