I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter: A Time magazine pick for Best YA of All Time

I’ve been wanting to read this for awhile, ever since we added it to our library. I thought it would help me to understand Hispanic culture a bit better, especially daughters of immigrants. While this is just one story, others have told me there are very similar elements of their story in this book. I used Sánchez’s Lessons on Expulsion poetry collection for my poetry analysis project in my poetry class. This poetry collection came before the nov...read more

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I have mixed feelings about this one. I wanted to love this book because of the idea of it. With that being said, I didn’t hate it nor love it. It was definitely a book I don’t regret reading, and overall a good read. At first I thought I was never going to like Julia. Then I had I to remind myself she’s a teenager. Her attitude, comments, and way of looking at life is no different than how I w...read more

I listened to the audiobook version of this, and I wish I would have read it myself. Only because I feel like the narrator created voices that were different than the characters would have sounded in my head. Overall, a great read with many questions left at each chapter - good ones!

I recommend to every young women especially Latina women who were/are raised in the Mexican culture.

This book is so relatable, to the Latinas out here, read this book. You can connect with the character and her story.