Cheryl Diamond had an outlaw childhood. She is born to a domineering, abusive con artist father and beautiful but fragile mother on the run from the law. By age nine, she had lived in more than a dozen countries on five continents and assumed six identities as her parents evaded Interpol and other law enforcement agencies. While her family lived on the run, she would learn math on an abacus, train as an Olympic hopeful, practice Sikhism and then celebrate her bat mitzvah, come to terms with the disappearance of her brother, become a successful fashion model, and ultimately watch her unconventional yet close-knit family implode. Diamond’s unforgettable memoir, NOWHERE GIRL: A MEMOIR OF A FUGITIVE CHILDHOOD (Algonquin Books: June 15, 2021), is a story of childhood lost and adulthood found. With forged passports and midnight escapes, Diamond writes an amazing, interesting, and memorable memoir.
Cheryl Diamond is available for interviews starting Wednesday, June 16, 2021 through August 27, 2021. I would love to get you a copy of the book (PDF and/or hard copy) and schedule an interview with Cheryl Diamond. If there is interest in an interview, please send back a preferred date and time.
In interviews, Cheryl Diamond can discuss:
Her earliest memories as a four-year-old in India. How even at that tender age she had been schooled by her complicated and controlling father to never make a mistake, never betray the family, and never become attached to a place or other people.
As the family continent-hopped, switched religions, paid for everything in cash, assumed new names time and again—always one step ahead of the law—young Cheryl (then called Bhajan) developed the burning need to achieve and win approval.
How b twenty-three she had seen so much of the world, but only through a peculiar lens that had somehow become normal.
How she was plagued by fundamental questions: Who am I? And how can I find the courage to break away from the people I love most – because escaping is the only way to survive.
