Author of the hilarious memoir Be Pretty, Get Married, and Always Drink TaB, Washington Post special correspondent Gigi Anders and her parents were born Jewish in Havana, Cuba. The trio fled Castro's regime for the United States in 1961. After six months in Miami Beach, the family moved to Washington, D.C., where Gigi came of age and eventually turned to writing. She has written for Glamour, Allure, Mirabella, American Health for Women, USA Today's USA Weekend, American Journalism Review, Hispanic, Latina, and First for Women.
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Daniella is a financial news reporter...and she's single, dating in New York, and not finding Mr. Right. And her mom, who's widowed, is living in the Bay area. And suddenly her mom comes out and says, hey, I've finally met somebody! I'm getting married!
Gigi Anders arrived in the U.S. from Cuba, with her family, when she was just a toddler. Since then she has led a cross-cultural life, as a Cuban woman, as a Jewish woman, as a distinctly American woman.
Daniella is a financial news reporter...and she's single, dating in New York, and not finding Mr. Right. And her mom, who's widowed, is living in the Bay area. And suddenly her mom comes out and says, hey, I've finally met somebody! I'm getting married! 
