Shut up and Look Cute!

Shut up and Look Cute! Diary of a Homeless Soul is a memoir about a US military woman from Ha?ti who struggles to find her voice, purpose, identity, and place in the world, in the midst of family dysfunction, displacement, abuse, abandonment, bad relationships, and perplexity in her new country. This book, which chronicles the author's trips and deployments around the world, has been writing itself for nineteen years. Shut up and Look Cute! is the military version of Julia Roberts's Eat Pray Love. However, unlike Ms. Roberts's character, she falls in love with the wrong man in the chapter, Sin City.

In her memoir, Yasmine strips herself of religious restrictions and expectations, giving voice to her issues, pain, vulnerabilities, and deepest desires to help us understand how every human soul can experience emotional homelessness at some point in life. This book also gives a behind-the-scenes look at life in the military from a female perspective and highlights the biggest challenges veterans face when they come home. This author's story of courage is a perfect example of how faith, belief, and resilience can take us from the pit to the palace, no matter where we come from.
Yasmine Charles is a native of Ha?ti, a US Navy veteran, a trained chef, and a former school teacher. She's been featured on PBS for a Women's History Month documentary. Her passion is to empower and inspire motherless and fatherless daughters around the world to rise above cultural tradition, the condition of their births, find their voices, and rewrite their own legacies. When Yasmine's not writing, you'll find her advocating for homeless veterans, in the kitchen creating new recipes, in a hot yoga class, or outdoors running.