I AM NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER By Erika L. Sanchez -Paperback 🆕
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I AM NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER By Erika L. Sánchez Discover the heartwarming story of Julia, a Mexican-American teenager struggling to find her place in the world Embark on an honest and insightful journey of culture, identity and family as Julia learns to accept and appreciate who she is. (A POIGNANT NOVEL ABOUT LOSING A SISTER AND FINDING YOURSELF) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • 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—from the author of Crying in the Bathroom“Alive and crackling—a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. ”—The New York TimesPerfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family.But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role.Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.But it’s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was there more to her sister’s story? And either way, how can Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal? Publisher: Ember; Reprint edition (March 5, 2019) Language: English Paperback: 368 pages ISBN-13: 9781524700515 Reading age: 14 - 17 years Lexile measure: HL730L Grade level: 9 - 12 Item Weight: 4.8 ounces Dimensions: 7.76 x 5.08 x 0.44 inches About the authors Erika L. Sánchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. A poet, essayist, and fiction writer, she is the author of a young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2017), a National Book Award Finalist, and the poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf, 2017), a finalist of the Pen America Open Book Award. Her nonfiction has been published in Al Jazeera, Cosmopolitan, ESPN.com, the Guardian, NBC News, Rolling Stone, Salon, and elsewhere. She has received a CantoMundo Fellowship, a Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She is a 2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellow. Follow her on Twitter: @ErikaLSanchez Instagram: @ErikaLSanchez Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/writererikalsanchez Website: erikalsanchez.com Miguel Angel García- Sánchez, tireless traveler, self-taught freelance photographer and publisher of several online media is a freethinker and active intellectual agitator, which seeks to provoke through his work a deep reflection on man and society, denouncing in particular cynicism and hypocrisy that, in his opinion, hinder and impede the development of the individual as a free citizen in a more just society. He attended technical computer studies (BSc Computer Engineering), studies of Computer Systems Engineering, and a Master's degree in Management and Business Administration, which has led him to work in several multinationals in and out of Spain in the field of new technologies, combining such professional activity with teaching at various public and private institutions such as the City of Rivas- Vaciamadrid, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid Institute of Health or Julian Besteiro School General Workers Union, among others...