This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Download one of the Free Kindle apps to start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, and computer. OMG, I hated this book. The author, a journalist, follows the lives of three young Mexican-born women living in Colorado for several years, beginning just before they finish high school. Overall, I enjoyed this book a lot, though a number of issues bothered me. It was supposed to be written in a non-bias format, but I found the author, Helen Thorpe – the wife of the democratic mayor of Denver, John Hickenlooper – was anything but. Paul had called her a bitch and a cunt too many times. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. How does it speak to the lives they lead in contrast to the lives that want? Just like us was insightful. Author Thorpe set out to write about the American experience of four Mexican high school girls living in Denver, two of whom were legal and two were here illegally. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The third has a similar history, but comes from a family that was able to obtain legal status, and the differences in opportunity sometimes put a barrier between her and her friends. It is also a book about identity—what it means to steal an identity, what it means to have a public identity, what it means to inherit an identity from parents. I highly recommend.

But why should there be? • Just Like You by Nick Hornby is published by Viking (£16.99). As a Denver native, a DPS high school graduate (the same school as the girls in the book in fact) and a University of Denver graduate, I saw many of my friends in this book.
Just Like Us is one of those books. Her first-person experiences lent the stories an immediacy I appreciated. Joseph’s mother is none too keen on his dating a woman close to her own age and Joseph is none too keen on the two women meeting; Lucy cringes as her friends (“graphic designers… publishers and independent film-makers”) patronise her new boyfriend; a neighbour calls the cops on the black youth he sees loitering on Lucy’s doorstep late at night; Joseph is mortified when he plays Lucy his new track and she toe-taps along to it like an encouraging mum. What will they think of the stories of these young women who are their age? Lucy asks Joseph to babysit one evening (she’s going out to a dinner party where she’s to be match-made with a successful novelist whose ripe self-regard is nicely sent up), an occasional job turns into a flirtation and, to both their surprise, to something more. This book was written in the early 2000's. It is also a book about identity—what it means to steal an identity, what it means to have a public identity, what it means to inherit an identity from parents. The girls had lived almost their entire lives in the U.S. Two of them had acquired legal documentation, while two had not. Hornby is surefooted around all these issues, amiable and forgiving. How did you react to this statement? To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com. Thanks Sarah!
Two of the girls are undocumented, having been brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents at a young age; despite their intelligence and motivation, their immigration status creates myriad barriers to living a normal life. Mixed activities to inspire independent and creative play. Thorpe writes, “even though she [Marisela] would never collect Social Security payments—she was padding the fund for America’s legal retirees.” (p. 39) Why do you think Thorpe chooses to mention this fact? My awareness of the immigration issue had not, before I read this book, extended to what it must be like for the teenage children of undocumented workers. Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, written by Helen Thorpe, is detailed account of the lives of four Mexico-born girls as they come of age in Denver, Colorado. I think I would have preferred a book written by one of these women, though, which factors into my three-star rating. Love blossoms between a young black man and a middle-aged white mother in Hornby’s assured, if cosy, new novel. When I hear a book is 'heartbreaking' I am usually pretty leery of it -- suspect it is overly sentimental or maudlin. That made wonder if her outsider perspective influenced her commentary in ways I didn’t notice as well.


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