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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
by Erika L. Sánchez
Trigger Warnings: cutting, suicide, sexual assault, gangs, drugs, shootings, pregnancy, abortion, body shaming, death
I found this book hard to read for a lot of reasons. Julia is a Mexican teenage girl growing up after her parents immigrated to Chicago. She loves to read and write. She also fights with her parents and basically any authority figure she can find. Oh and her perfect older sister just died after getting hit by a semi.
This book pretty much just feels like an account of Julia’s life for a couple years, and it seems like every chapter brings a new potential issue that is then just fades away. Maybe that’s because it’s written from her perspective and that’s how she sees things? Maybe this incessant stream of crappy things is just to show you what a hard life she has?
I’m not sure. This book wasn’t bad, and I’ve heard lots of great things, but unless you were quite rebellious as a teenager (and therefore may identify with Julia) I’m not sure it’s worth the read.
I found this book hard to read for a lot of reasons. Julia is a Mexican teenage girl growing up after her parents immigrated to Chicago. She loves to read and write. She also fights with her parents and basically any authority figure she can find. Oh and her perfect older sister just died after getting hit by a semi.
This book pretty much just feels like an account of Julia’s life for a couple years, and it seems like every chapter brings a new potential issue that is then just fades away. Maybe that’s because it’s written from her perspective and that’s how she sees things? Maybe this incessant stream of crappy things is just to show you what a hard life she has?
I’m not sure. This book wasn’t bad, and I’ve heard lots of great things, but unless you were quite rebellious as a teenager (and therefore may identify with Julia) I’m not sure it’s worth the read.