It was possibly the first time I’d actually used the couch for sitting. Then I sat on the custom-made couch I’d purchased several years earlier and had only used as a sort of open-format clothes dresser. I stacked the mail that had collected into two neat piles: bills to throw in the trash and pretend never arrived and mail-order catalogues for later, bedtime reading. So I sprayed Windex on things and rubbed paper towels over them, and with my free hand I clutched my phone and spoke to my cousins and my grandmother. In the past, periods of sobriety would be spent making apologies to people for various things I did to them while under the influence. I supposed they did things like clean, speak to friends on the phone and drop their kids off at gymnastics practice. What did normal people do when they weren’t drinking? And I had no idea what to do with my sober self. I was feeling nearly electrified with the discomfort of existing with a blood alcohol level at zero. It’s just that I’d written this journal only for me it wasn’t polite enough or interesting enough or funny enough for anyone else to read.ĭrybegan as nothing more ambitious than a journal I started the day I returned to New York City from rehab in Minnesota. Not because I revealed anything particularly secret beyond run-of-the-mill complaints about my brother’s greasy metallic aroma or the lack of buying power afforded by my pittance of an allowance. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter deals with these important topics in a way that sometimes feels a little too relatable, with very intriguing characters that will make you feel a little less alone.When I was a kid, one of my many phobias was that somebody would read my diary. Being perfect was her sister’s role,but now with her sister gone she starts to wonder if her sister was as perfect as she appeared, what if she wasn’t? Throughout the story she discovers the truth. She knows she’s not the perfect daughter, she wants to go away for college, become a writer, andtravel. Her sadness is only getting stronger and she starts to feel less and less like herself. Julia is a Mexican girl that is plagued by sadness from the lost of her sister., Her sadness is not the kind of sadness that starts going away with time or that goes away little by little as one starts to heal. I started reading and as I got to know Julia I felt even more seen. I was first drawn to the book because of its title, which made me feel seen, like it was telling me “look you are not the only not perfect Mexican daughter”. It deals with so many important topics that can be summed up to two questions - Does the truth set you free? Do we really know the people we love? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is a very emotional story that’s deeply rooted in family and love.
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