Once I Was You
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Average rating4.5
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Ratings2
Average rating4.5
"Emmy Award-winning NPR journalist Maria Hinojosa shares her personal story interwoven with American immigration policy's coming-of-age journey at a time when our country's branding went from "The Land of the Free" to "the land of invasion.""--
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I loved that Maria read the book in her own voice.
The book is her story but also a story of immigration in the United States.
I love how she sets the scenes of people, the events of the day, her own thoughts and motivations, and she doesn't shy away from uncomfortable feels. Very real.
This was my choice for the Book Riot 2021 Read Harder challenge: a memoir by a latinx author. I'm glad for the challenge because I don't know if I would have found this book otherwise.
