![]() ![]() When Julia travels to Mexico to visit her family, she witnesses the violence of the narcos, or bosses and dealers with tied to the drug trade, and understands for the first time how much her parents have sacrificed in order to give her a better life. ![]() Julia’s friend Lorena, too, daily feels the impact of the violence and cruelty at the border: her father did not make it across after getting lost in the desert with his coyote and their group. Julia’s parents crossed the border illegally, at the mercy of predatory coyotes who, Julia learns, raped her mother while holding a gun to her father’s head. Now I’ll never know what Olga would have become. But the only time I ever asked her why she didn’t move out or go to a real college, she told me to leave her alone in a voice so weak and brittle, I never wanted to ask her again. Sometimes I wanted to scream at her until something switched on in her brain. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga. Saint Olga, the perfect Mexican daughter. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. are forced to experience-poverty, labor exploitation, and living in constant fear of discovery and deportation-are a part of Julia and her family’s daily lives. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. ![]() The unfair conditions undocumented immigrants in the U.S. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is set in modern-day 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. ![]()
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