'I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter' lays out a real and raw world
Dec 29, 2017
3 minutes
Julia Reyes is many things.
She’s a 15-year-old writer who desperately wants to go to college. She’s an outspoken feminist with big dreams and a hunger for art. She’s sarcastic, intellectual, and judgmental. She’s the daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants, living in a roach-infested apartment in Chicago. She is unremittingly poor – and eternally bitter about it. She’s angry almost all the time.
When her older sister, Olga, dies in a car accident, Julia adds one more
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