![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. ![]() Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.īut it's not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. This gritty contemporary novel about an unlikable first-generation Mexican-American teen fails to deliver. Sánchez’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is that of secrets and lies. 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. The most potent theme throughout Erika L. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family.īut Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. ![]()
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