Erika is fluent in Spanish, Spanglish, and cat. She lives in Chicago, not far from the setting of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.
With the help of her best friend, Lorena, and her first love (first everything), Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Since she was a 12-year-old nerd in giant bifocals and embroidered vests, Erika has dreamed of writing complex, empowering stories about girls of colorwhat she wanted to read as a young adult. 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. 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. 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.
Her debut young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, published in October 2017 by Knopf Books. A poet, novelist, and essayist, her debut poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion, was published by Graywolf in July 2017, and was a finalist for the PEN America Open Book Award. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home. Snchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants.
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