Books like I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
12 books with a reading profile close to I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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Yolk
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Jayne and June Baek are sisters living in New York City with vastly different lives.
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Fresh Water for Flowers
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Violette Toussaint is the caretaker of a cemetery in Burgundy, where she lives in a lodge by the gate.
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The People We Keep
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In 1994, April Sawicki lives in a motorhome in Little River, New York, where she works at a motor vehicle office and plays guitar.
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Sweetbitter
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The story follows twenty-two-year-old Tess, who moves to New York City and secures a position as a backwaiter at a high-end Union Square restaurant.
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THE NEST
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The Plumb siblings—Leo, Beatrice, Jack, and Melody—have spent years anticipating the distribution of a shared trust fund they call the Nest.
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About a Boy
by Nick Hornby
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Will Freeman is a thirty-six-year-old Londoner living off the royalties of a Christmas song written by his father.
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Blue Sisters
by Coco Mellors
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky Blue are three estranged sisters who return to their family apartment in New York one year after the death of their fourth sibling, Nicky.
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Felix Ever After
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Felix Love is a Black, queer, transgender teenager attending a summer arts program in New York City while navigating the complicates of identity and self-worth.
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The Vacationers
by Emma Straub
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The Post family embarks on their annual summer vacation to Mallorca, but behind the sun-drenched facade, simmering resentments and long-held secrets threaten to unravel their seemingly perfect lives.
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Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Rebecca Winter, a once-famous New York City photographer, finds her bank account dwindling and her artistic relevance fading as she enters her sixties.
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Eliza and Her Monsters
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Eliza Mirk is a shy high school senior who secretly creates Monstrous Sea, a global webcomic phenomenon.
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The Rest of Us Just Live Here
by Patrick Ness
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In an unnamed town where "indie kids" are busy fighting supernatural soul-eating Immortals, Mikey Mitchell just wants to graduate and work up the courage to ask out his crush, Henna.
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