Erika L. Sanchez's collection of memoir essays Crying in the Bathroom is set to be published in July 2022. It chronicles her life growing up as a melancholic, outcast, first-generation Mexican American. Readers will likely see a lot of similarities between Sanchez and her character Julia in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter as well as a lot of overlapping themes.
Secrets of the Casa Rosada is a YA novel by Mexican-American female author Alex Temblador that involves the theme of secrets, connecting the book in several ways to Sanchez's novel.
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is the Mexican-American author of the book Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines. It is both a memoir and a...