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Cuesta Library Virtual Book Club: Words of Change: September 2021: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Cuesta Library Virtual Book Club: Words of Change

flyer for bookclub fall 2021

Discuss: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

-Kirkus Reviews, 2 Aug 2017

-National Book Award 2017, Finalist 

-Reading Group Choices (choose green tab "Discussion Questions")

-School Library Journal, Review, 9 Sept 2017

-"Selena's Teen Book Review," Glendale Library(CA) (4 min video)

Suggested readilngs

Author: Meet Erika L. Sanchez

 

Head shot author red dress

Poet, Author: Erika Sanchez

-Chicago Humanities Festival, 2017 (55 min video) 

-Erika Sanchez, Author's Web site 

-"My America" blog: Erika L. Sánchez

-"Writers Read": College of DuPage, 2017 (55 min video)

Beyond the Book: Play and Movie Versions

Movie Adaptation of the Book Coming to Netflix 

Scene from the Play, Steppenwolf Theater (1 min video)

Study Guide for the PlaySteppenwolf Theater

Poetry: By Erika Sanchez

Where:To Get the Book

Check out print copies from either campus library. We have the book in both English & Spanish.

cover shot of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter