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2000s: A story about losing a sister and the pressures of growing up in a Mexican-American home.
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
What you need to know before your trail
Perfect 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?
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“I’d rather live in the streets than be a submissive Mexican wife who spends all day cooking and cleaning.”
This is the story of a girl who loses her sister, the sister who was a good Mexican daughter. Her death makes Julia realise that she doesn’t want to play this role. She wants to be a writer, a poet and be involved in art.
Living in Chicago, away from her homeland makes Julia starts to understand why and how her parents first came to live in the city, and how being Mexican in the USA affects a person.
“As much as I get sick of eating Mexican food every single day of my life, if heaven existed, I know it would smell like fried tortillas.”
During a trip to Mexico to visit family, Julia begins to learn how much her parents sacrificed for the family and what she must be do be a Mexican in the USA
Booktrail Boarding Pass: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Destination : Chicago Author/Guide: Erika L Sanchez Departure Time: 2000s
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