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Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz

by Mona Ruiz, Geoff Boucher · 1997

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This engrossing memoir charts Ruiz's journey toward self-identity, tracing the tortuous path of her life—a life in which Ruiz assumed contradictory roles: gang chola, high school drop-out, disowned daughter, battered wife, welfare mother, student, and policewoman.

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