![]() Sánchez This Study Guide consists of approximately 80 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. It’s just worth noting that more than 500,000 Chicagoans are specifically of Mexican descent, this story is a Chicago story filled with local references to the likes of Myopic Books in Wicker Park or the Luna Cafe or the sights of Pilsen and Evanston, and that a whole lot of over-educated artsy types sit around all day pontificating on the problems of audience diversification and end up producing something pretentious or laden with an agenda foreign to 490,00 of our fellow Chicagoans when, hey, “Mexican Daughter” is right here. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Setting Erika L. That’s not necessarily a criticism of director Sandra Marquez’s simple but warm-centered production, which showcases Karen Rodriguez as Julia and also features rich work from Dyllan Rodrigues-Miller. In Erika Snchez’s New York Times bestselling novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, 15-year-old Julia Reyes navigates grief, young adulthood, and the intense expectations of her Mexican. Why can’t a teenager be at the center of a mainstage show? ![]() ![]() Watching Isaac Gómez’s entertaining adaptation with a bunch of school-group kids on Thursday - I always prefer to see these shows with their intended audience, although you can take your kids on the weekends - I mused on whether this particular novel really deserved a bigger budget, a deeper dive and a fuller treatment that it gets here. ![]()
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