Author Tamara Yajia narrates her debut memoir with dynamic energy. Her stories of her childhood in Argentina feature her hilarious yet often inappropriate Jewish family. . . With emotional depth, she tackles difficult topics, such as her experience of being sexualized as a child, social awkwardness, immigration, grief, and loss. Her narration reflects the deep love she feels for her family; no matter how chaotic they may be, listeners will be moved. Yajia invites us to laugh with her through her shrewd observations of the absurdity and dysfunction of her childhood.

Audiofile Magazine

Cry for Me, Argentina is the perfect summer read - you'll cry and laugh and crylaugh . . . The book makes the case that if you have a deliriously deranged family you might turn out the better for it. Tamara brims with life, and her superpower is that she's unflinchingly, maybe compulsively, real when talking about it, almost like she was born with her embarrassment gene in reverse.

LA Weekly

Yajia is a talented writer with an arsenal of wild stories. She'll have you laughing and feeling perhaps a bit concerned about children like her. If you love memoirists like Jeannette Walls and Jennette McCurdy, who are both hilariously sanguine about their chaotic childhoods but are also unflinchingly honest, this one might be for you.

Shondaland

Yajia writes as if she's unload­ing years of pain, grief, and hard knocks. With sharp, bit­ing prose, she recalls every detail. . . as if it hap­pened just yesterday.

Jewish Book Council

Raw and raunchy, Yajia's account is appealingly unfiltered.

Publishers Weekly

Tamara is one of the funniest people I know and her memoir, Cry for Me, Argentina, is as hilarious as she is. Her mother is my favorite character who also happens to be a real person.

Cecily Strong