simichele 's review for:

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

2.0

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I mostly hated this book. I reminded myself she’s a teenager and I still hated it. It included every possible stereotype possible of Mexicans and Mexican Americans. If I weren’t one myself I’d think everything bad people say about our community might actually be true. That three of the few redeemable characters in the book who she admired were each white (her boyfriend, her teacher, her therapists) wasn’t lost on me. And the writing. So trite - Chicago is so cold apparently the only way to describe it is that it feels like your eyeballs will freeze. The one value I found is the important point that many times we fail to truly know those who are closest to us.