Everyone at one point feels it necessarily to make some type of change in their life, whether it’s moving cities, deep cleaning your room, or dying your hair a vibrant color, change is a necessity and also can make someone feel an array of emotions. Sometimes the change that occurs wasn’t planned, or is someone's worst fear, brought into reality. This is especially true for Julia, after her sister dies in a terrible accident, she’s unable to sleep in her own room. So she often finds herself sneaking into her sisters room long after her parents have fallen asleep. Hoping that maybe this would make her feel closer to her sister, Olga. When looking through her sisters stuff Julia finds something, so unlike her sister. She wonders if she ever really knew her, or if her sister was a complete stranger. This new discovery leads her to wanting to find out more about her sisters double life. “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter,” was written by Erika L. Sånchez. Its Julias junior year of high school, she’s figuring out what she wants for her career, while constantly arguing with her mother. She mostly just wants a major change in her life, she wants to be independent and able to make her own decisions. Her mother wants the opposite, she’s lead a hard life after crossing the Mexico border into America and she wants Julia to have a better life. Julia leads a pretty normal and calm life, until the day her sister gets hit by a truck while crossing the road. Everyone in her family is devastated, and Julia has lost her closest family member. While trying to find out more about her sister's life, she goes through major changes, maybe ones she didn’t want. I picked this book because even though Julia and I look drastically different and are probably polar opposites when it comes to personalty we still are quite a lot a like. We both have a love for reading and english, but Julia is very outspoken, while I often come off as timid. I think that it also meets the requirements when it comes to how we live, Julia lives in a large city, Chicago to be exact. She regularly ventures to old bookstores and coffee shops. Sometime that can be done in Decorah, but is usually unlikely for me. I learned through reading this book that bad things will always happen to you, it’s unstoppable, but what truly makes a person strong is what they do to overcome adversity and their challenges in life. “Everything changes, for better or for worse, whether we like it or not. Sometimes it’s beautiful, and sometimes it fills us with terror,” (Sånchez 336). By Chloe J.
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