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Sánchez, Erika L.

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

344 pp. | Knopf | October, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-5247-0048-5 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-1-5247-0049-2 $20.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-5247-0050-8
(2) YA Fifteen-year-old narrator Julia Reyes has spent her life being her "perfect" sister Olga's opposite. After Olga's death, Julia searches for information about her sister, and the simple narratives she has created about her family unravel. Sánchez paints an evocative portrait of a Mexican American family, effectively capturing bicultural tensions. The depiction of Julia processing her losses is hauntingly memorable and noteworthy in its authentic representation of too-rarely-written-about culture.
Reviewer: Christina L. Dobbs | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2018

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