PGB The Novel

 

Another story by an aspiring writer loosely based on her life. Even though I’m not famous.

At 25-years-old, Hollywood socialite journalist Alexia Mathews-Martinez, would hit her pinnacle of success, notoriety, and platinum blonde. The only daughter of a prominent businessman from the mid-west and a Mexico-born housekeeper, Alexia begrudged her dark-brown-but-don’t-call-it-black hair and other given traits that tied her to a family she couldn’t communicate with, religious beliefs she couldn’t agree with, and a culture she couldn’t understand. At age 14, when her ultra-conservative mother catches her in the bathroom attempting to douse her dark hair with platinum highlights, she breaks into continuous Hail Marys in fear that her daughter’s act of vanity now has her eternally condemned. It is at that moment Alexia learns that the politics of going blonde involves much more than a bottle of bleach.

Adventurous, idealistic, quick-witted, clumsy and a sucker for love, after frustration with the language barrier that seperates her from her Hispanic heritage prompts her to leave the Catholic church and vow to never return to Mexico, Alexia can only find herself through her jet-setting experiences, her diverse group of friends, her fragile relationship with familia and the men who love her. Everyone we love helps mold us into who we are and for Alexia, it would take a fellow confused chucho, a Caucasian politico, a wildjudio, a womanizing Mexicano and a domesticated extranjero, to help her love herself and the fabric that makes her who she is.