Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life as a Failed Child Star

"Remember that scene from Little Miss Sunshine where a young Abigail Breslin performs a striptease for a room full of horrified onlookers? That’s a story straight out of Cry for Me, Argentina. Only, it was Tamara Yajia’s real life and the crowd was full of rabbis. Her memoir is full of laugh-out-loud moments like that one as she recounts her attempts to become a child star, her moves back and forth between Argentina and California, as well as some heartfelt, difficult stories from her dysfunctional family life."