I am not your perfect Mexican daughter.
I wish this book existed when I was in high school. so many familiar feelings of not measuring to the expectations of your immigrant, Mexican parents. Feeling like you are in between two worlds -- between the ones your non-Mexican friends live in (or friends with “cooler” parents) and the world your parents come from, hundreds of miles away. Between religious traditions that mean being ungrateful is a sin, and mental illness which makes feeling anything feel far away. Always being measured against someone else who is willing to live within the traditional roles and expectations set by family -- or at least keep everything else a secret. The struggle between living your real life in secret to keep the peace, or out loud and facing the chaos that comes. And, of course, this book is based in Chicago. Listened to it on CD.