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A review by piyali
Don't Ask Me Where I'm from by Jennifer De Leon
3.0
"Where are you from-from?" Lilian Cruz, an American citizen born and brought up in America, a child of parents from Central American countries, is always asked this question and she wants the world to stop asking her this. Not a whole lot is going right in 15 year old Liliana's life. Her father has disappeared, she has been chosen to be bussed to a school in the suburbs of Boston where the students are primarily white, her mother seems to be depressed. Liliana needs to find out what happened to her father, deal with her desperate and overprotective mother and find her place in her school to make sure her heritage is valued.
The book deals with important issues of immigration and race relations but I did not enjoy the narration. I believe it is written from the perspective of a 15 year old and the author has tried to make it authentic, but it simply did not work for me. Having said that, I am not the target audience. This is a young adult fiction and perhaps young adults will relate to the language and the mode of narration.
The book deals with important issues of immigration and race relations but I did not enjoy the narration. I believe it is written from the perspective of a 15 year old and the author has tried to make it authentic, but it simply did not work for me. Having said that, I am not the target audience. This is a young adult fiction and perhaps young adults will relate to the language and the mode of narration.