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

It has already found a place in high school classrooms across the country, and is now being adapted for film by America Ferrera. 'Alive and crackling-a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner.

Sánchez drew from her own adolescence as the ambitious child of immigrant parents to create the character of Julia, a whip-smart, tempestuous teen who is quick to declare that she dislikes “most people and most things.” Her authentic voice made the book, published in 2017, an instant hit with readers and a finalist for the National Book Award. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A 'stunning' (America Ferrera) YA novel about a teenager coming to terms with losing her sister and finding herself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home. In Olga’s absence, Julia’s parents are quick to find fault with just about everything she does, and the teen struggles to juggle their expectations with her own grief and mental health needs. Read reviews and buy I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - by Erika L Sánchez (Hardcover) at Target. But after a tragic accident leads to Olga’s death, Julia is left alone with her family. That’s because, unlike 15-year-old Julia, Olga wore modest clothes, spent evenings with her parents and didn’t have grand ambitions that involved going away to college and leaving her family behind. When Julia travels to Mexico to visit her family, she witnesses the violence of the narcos, or bosses and dealers with tied to the drug trade, and understands for the first time how much her parents have sacrificed in order to give her a better life.Julia’s older sister was the “perfect” Mexican daughter. Julia’s friend Lorena, too, daily feels the impact of the violence and cruelty at the border: her father did not make it across after getting lost in the desert with his coyote and their group. (translator: Graciela Romero Saldaña) t.p. Julia’s parents crossed the border illegally, at the mercy of predatory coyotes who, Julia learns, raped her mother while holding a gun to her father’s head. Yo no soy tu perfecta hija Mexicana, 2018:t.p. are forced to experience-poverty, labor exploitation, and living in constant fear of discovery and deportation-are a part of Julia and her family’s daily lives. Fifteen-year-old Julia Reyes is nothing like her sister, Saint Olga, who was struck by a semi at age. The unfair conditions undocumented immigrants in the U.S. After the death of her dutiful older sister, Olga, Julia must deal with grieving parents and the discovery that her sister was keeping secrets. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is set in modern-day Chicago, and through Julia’s biting and adroit point of view, it explores many issues facing not just the city of Chicago, but those experienced by immigrant families as well.

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