American Like Me American Like Me

American Like Me

Reflections on Life Between Cultures

    • 4.7 • 26 Ratings
    • $13.99
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Publisher Description

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Academy Award–nominated actress and 2023 SeeHer award recipient America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.

America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents’ homeland and Honduran culture. 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.

Still, she yearned to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative.

Now, in American Like Me, America invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. 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. Each of them struggled to establish a sense of self, find belonging, and feel seen. And they call themselves American enthusiastically, reluctantly, or not at all.

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.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2018
September 25
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Gallery Books
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
46.9
MB

Customer Reviews

KarlaR-T ,

Amazing Stories!

America Ferrera’s book is amazing! I love how each individual is represented in every chapter. I can see myself walking through each person’s path and life journey. Thank you for representing this stories and giving us this gem. It brings me joy to see myself, a daughter of Honduran immigrants, represented in this book. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙂

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