ENG1500: College Writing - Wojnar: About the Author

The novel provides particular attention to an extremely tense relationship between Julia and her mother and emphasizes the ChicaNerd's struggle to construct an authentic sense of self amid familial pressure to be the "good daughter."

The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Mexican-American poet, essayist, fiction writer, and feminist. Sanchez published a humorous young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, which some reviewers saw as a mixture of Jane the Virgin with The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Her novel has been banned across the country.

Growing Up Bicultural
Erika L. Sánchez on her YA debut, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Growing up, I resented much about traditional Mexican culture. I was often irate about the gender inequality and patriarchy I witnessed in the majority-Mexican town in Illinois where I was raised.

Poem by Erika L. Sánchez: Six Months after Contemplating Suicide
Admit it -
you wanted the end
with a serpentine
greed.