Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781416540175)

Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother's native Mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core.

Mexican Enough chronicles her adventures rumbling with luchadores (professional wrestlers), marching with rebel teachers in Oaxaca, investigating the murder of a prominent gay activist, and sneaking into a prison to meet with indigenous resistance fighters. She also visits families of the undocumented workers she befriended back home. Travel mates include a Polish thief, a Border Patrol agent, and a sultry dominatrix. Part memoir, part journalistic reportage, Mexican Enough illuminates how we cast off our identity in our youth, only to strive to find it again as adults -- and the lessons to be learned along the way.

Author: Stephanie Elizondo Griest
ISBN-10: 1416540172
ISBN-13: 9781416540175
Publisher: Atria Books
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2008
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2008 pg. 584
Publishers Weekly 06/16/2008 pg. 45
Poder Hispanic 08/01/2008 pg. 62