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I AM NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER by ERIKA L. SANCHEZ

 


I AM NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER by ERIKA L. SANCHEZ

If you want an #ownvoices YA novel that is brutally honest about the shittiness of being a teenager, or being the daughter of Mexican immigrants, of having the “perfect” Mexican sister who also happens to be dead, then you’ve come to the right Instagram square.

Julia is very opinionated and she doesn’t hold back. She’s extremely smart but that doesn’t mean she’s polite. She’s often in trouble at school for her bad attitude and she’s not afraid to offend her traditional Mexican relatives if they talk shit about her.

This book is one of those that has you laughing and crying at the same time. It deals with serious issues like death and depression and wealth inequality and racism and parent/child relationships and crossing the Mexican/American border. All of this is covered sensitively but also with humour, culminating in the most perfect teenage angst I have ever seen recorded in a novel.

Something I value above all else in my life and in Literature is honesty and this narrator has that in abundance.

I cannot recommend this book enough. It’s so so good!


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