I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is set in modernday Chicago, and through Julia's biting and adroit point of view, it explores many issues facing not just the city of Chicago, but those experienced by immigrant families as well The unfair conditions undocumented immigrants in the US are forced to experience—poverty, labor exploitation, and living in constant fear of discovery and deportation—are a part of Julia andNational Book Award Finalist! Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter That was Olga's role 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 And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too
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