INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up Between cultures.
Ranging from the heartfelt to the hilarious, their stories shine a light on a quintessentially American experience and will appeal to anyone with a complicated relationship to family, culture, and growing up..
And they call themselves American enthusiastically, reluctantly, or not at all.
Each of them struggled to establish a sense of self, find belonging, and feel seen.
However, they are also immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous people, or people who otherwise grew up with deep and personal connections to more than one culture.
We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers.
Now, in American Like Me , America invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about Life Between cultures.
Still, she yearned to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative.
Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales alongside apple pie at Christmas never seemed at odds with her American identity.
America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents\' homeland and Honduran culture.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up Between cultures
