I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter meets Miami in Virgo. A riveting, raw, painfully honest coming-of-age story told by four Latina BFFs. Lyrical prose brings to life their struggles with devastating secrets nobody talks about, toxic masculinity, forbidden love and loss, faith in crisis, creating a page-turner. Cultural expectations sizzle against the unforgiving truths of immigrant life in drab Stockton, California in the 1960s. Can their friendship endure? Can the four Marys each survive?If only.they had shared their secrets in time.
Based on true stories confided to the authors by their Chicana students.
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter meets Miami in Virgo. A riveting, raw, painfully honest coming-of-age story told by four Latina BFFs. Lyrical prose brings to life their struggles with devastating secrets nobody talks about, toxic masculinity, forbidden love and loss, faith in crisis, creating a page-turner. Cultural expectations sizzle against the unforgiving truths of immigrant life in drab Stockton, California in the 1960s. Can their friendship endure? Can the four Marys each survive?If only.they had shared their secrets in time.
Based on true stories confided to the authors by their Chicana students.