I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Paperback)

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Started with the audiobook and it didn't hook me. When I switched to the print version, the book got me going. Julia is a high schooler in Chicago looking to get away. She feels smoothered by her over-protective parents and their (cultural) expectations. Her older sister, Olga - the perfect Mexic...

from Lindsay_W

Julia, the teenage daughter of undocumented Mexican Immigrants, struggles to figure out her life in urban Chicago. After the death of her sister, her relationship with her over protective mother becomes intolerable. It is not until Julia reaches a breaking point, and learns all that her parents h...

from foggidawn

Julia's older sister Olga was the perfect daughter, devoted to her parents, obedient, hardworking, and everything that Julia is not. And then Olga dies in a traffic accident. Fifteen-year-old Julia is dealing not only with her grief at her sister's death, but with her mother's disappointment and ...

from Steve.Gourley

Is it best to tell someone the truth even if it will bring them pain or let them believe a lie that makes them happy? This is a question which frustrates Julia Reyes throughout I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. Olga, her compliant older sister, is though. The book begins in Olga's funeral, ...

from thursbest

I really had a hard time grasping the character of Julia, her personality was just something that I would find someone hard to relate to, but overall, as a Mexican girl myself, I found myself relating to a lot of the issues she brought up in her family and household. It was like looking inside in...