An absorbing collection of essays written by high profile Americans from different fields about their experiences of growing up as first generation American. Edited and with a foreword by actress and activist America Ferrera.
America Ferrera Books
America Ferrera is an award-winning actress, producer, director, and activist. She is best known for her breakthrough role as Betty Suarez on the hit comedy *Ugly Betty*, earning her a Golden Globe, Emmy, and other significant accolades. Ferrera also produces and stars in the acclaimed comedy *Superstore*. In 2016, she co-founded HARNESS, an organization that unites storytellers and activists to amplify the cultural narrative surrounding social justice. She is a national advocate for human and civil rights, having delivered the opening speech at the 2017 Women's March on Washington.
American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
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.