I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Hardcover)

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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 BookConcierge

Book on CD performed by Kayla Garcia. Fifteen-year-old Julia narrates this coming-of-age story set in Chicago. The novel opens shortly after her older sister, Olga, has died in a tragic traffic accident. Her mother and father are absorbed in their grief, and Julia feels smothered by their over-pr...

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, ...