I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican DaughterNEW 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 homefrom the author of Crying in the Bathroom Alive and cracklinga gritty tale wrapped in a page turner. The New York Times Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move

¡Estás despierta

and more all the way to bedtime

a fateful wind blows into Oaxaca City

* Take-along handle for little hands to carry wherever they go

our narrator’s pockets are empty

con una estructura que cuenta del uno al diez

Julissa secretly lived as an undocumented immigrant

Latinitas is also available in English

Before the first Christmas light is strung

and proverbs collected by award-winning authors and scholars of Latine literature

no matter where that family comes from

it makes a world through people and their voices