With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. That was her sister Olgas role, but when Olga dies in a tragic accident on a busy Chicago street, Julia is left. Discover the English Audiobook at Audible. 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. Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter as its meant to be heard, narrated by Kyla Garcia. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. 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. By Elizabeth Acevedo Book cover of Clap When You Land Fangirl. Sánchez’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is that of secrets and lies. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family.īut Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. 10 books like I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Clap When You Land. The most potent theme throughout Erika L. Her debut young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, published in October 2017 by Knopf Books for Young Readers, was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Awards. Sometimes I wanted to scream at her until something switched on in her brain.

And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Saint Olga, the perfect Mexican daughter. Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. “Alive and crackling–a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A “stunning” (America Ferrera) YA novel about a teenager coming to terms with losing her sister and finding herself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home.

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