![]() ![]() With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. 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. “Alive and crackling-a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. ![]() 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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