A review by honeydewfelon
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood by Marie Arana

5.0

A unique memoir in that Arana blended fragments of history and her family’s history in with her own. The memoir is mostly of the author’s early childhood, growing up in Peru with a limeño father and an American mother. Arana’s writing is vivid, her metaphors rich. The way she navigates and blends two vastly different cultures is fascinating.