Gibbs, Adrienne Samuels (July 10, 2017). "Poet Erika L. Sánchez on Going Mainstream and Not Being Perfect". Chicago Magazine . Retrieved 6 October 2017. It's obviously important to have PoC protagonists, especially in children's/YA literature. As I'm not Mexican, I don't think it's my place to determine how effective or accurate this representation was. This is far from Ferrera's first time in the director's chair. Prior to this project, she helmed four episodes of Superstore and two of Gentefied. (Ferrera serves as a producer on both series.) In 2018, she spoke to Variety about directing for the first time on Superstore 's second season. “I think primarily being in front of the camera and directing at the same time, the first go around, was the biggest challenge for me,” Ferrera told the outlet. “But the second time, I knew what I needed, and I was able to do that — namely really lean on the people around me that I trusted and could help me feel great about when I was in front of the camera." Cepeda, Esther J. (July 20, 2016). "What I've Learned: 'Poetry Chose Me,' Says Writer Erika L. Sánchez". NBC News . Retrieved 6 October 2017.

When I was really struggling with my depression as a young woman, someone trying to comfort me actually said something to me that made me feel about a thousand times worse for a really long time. She said that people with depression were "deep, sensitive, caring people" and that we cared too much about others and didn't spend enough time caring about ourselves. It made me feel like trash, because I didn't feel sensitive or caring. I felt angry all the time-- mostly with myself, but with others, too. I just despised myself slightly more than I did the things and people around me. I walked away from that person hating myself a little more that day, because it was like, "Oh, great, so not only am I depressed, selfish, and hateful, I'm not even feeling depressed in the way that I'm supposed to." I found it hard to find any likeable characters here, except Julia's teacher.. and I guess her relatives in Mexico and maybe Connor. I warmed to Julia in the latter stages of the story, but it took a long while. I think the author does a good job conveying how a teenager feels when they have parents who are very restrictive, but it wasn’t a whole lot of fun to read about. There's no official release date for the film. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has delayed several productions since spring 2020 and brought new safety protocols to existing projects. As for Ferrera's schedule, she's an executive producer on Netflix's Gentefied and finishing up her role as store manager Amy Sosa on the sixth and final season of Superstore. That being said, filming for I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter could begin later this year for a 2022 premiere. What is the movie about? Sánchez also wrote about intergenerational trauma, gender norms, and grief and loss in meaningful and honest ways. I loved growing alongside Julia in her understanding of these topics and how they affect her life. Sánchez portrays these issues in nuanced ways. Instead of Julia receiving a neat ending in relation to her family’s trauma or grief, she develops more self-compassion and self-understanding that empowers her to keep going even without a clean resolution. Sánchez’s rendition of these issues helped the novel feel both lifelike and hopeful, a powerful combination.

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Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. I honestly wanted to love this book but the characters were so unbearable. I wanted to DNF this so many times but I just kept going to see if the characters will get better. The only thing that kept me going was the Mexican culture. I enjoyed seeing how similar their culture was with the Filipino culture. I could relate with a lot of the things happening around Julia especially the scenes with her mother and her relatives.

Producing are Anonymous Content’s Doreen Wilcox Little, MACRO’s Charles D. King and Poppy Hanks, and Aevitas Creative Management’s David Kuhn. Here’s what else we know about Netflix’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter: Julia was a horrible main character. She was selfish, arrogant, and downright mean. I understand that the situations that she were in were terrible but she dealt with them so badly. She had the main character complex in which she saw herself as different from other people and that nobody understands her. But honestly, her friends all tried to understand her. Nobody understands her because she doesn't let them. She thinks she's better than everybody and proves herself right by putting other people down. Her behavior was destructive and the only person hurting her the most was herself. Filming for Netflix’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is currently set to begin in October 2022. Filming is to take place in Chicago, US according to Production Weekly. La premisa del libro me sonaba demasiado interesante: una chica (Julia) que quiere ser libre vive en un hogar extremadamente conservador, su hermana se acaba de morir, y de pronto la chica descubre que su hermana escondía secretos, y con la ayuda de su mejor amiga y de su interés amoroso (al que no conocemos hasta la página 180 aprox, osea la mitad del libro).I always thought Angie would grow up to be something awesome, like a designer or an artist, but it turned out she was another Mexican daughter who didn’t want to leave home.

La escritura es simple, no profundiza lo que debe y encima parece todo como muy apresurado. La autora no supo manejar la trama en ningún momento, y el "gran misterio" detrás de la vida de la hermana queda en segundo plano el 80% del libro. Te puedes olvidar de ello por completo porque ni importancia tiene, solo cuando la protagonista quiere demostrar que su hermana no era perfecta y etc etc etc, y luego siente culpa por intentar revelar estos secretos. No la llegas a entender, ni a ella ni la escritura del libro. Y es que Julia no tiene ninguna otra motivación más que querer salir de su casa, pero ni siquiera se esfuerza por ello. Su familia no tiene dinero y sus padres no planean apoyarla, pero en lugar de pensar en sus notas, falta a sus clases, le falta el respeto a los profesores, y ni siquiera se esfuerza en el colegio. Es decir, ni ella misma se creía sus motivaciones. There was also a group therapy scene that I hated. Because instead of making Julia grow and she judged all the other kids. Like wtf is wrong with her What seals the 5th star for this title for me, however, is the complete and utter ease that Sanchez weaves English and Spanish throughout the narrative, sometimes translating the Spanish and sometimes just leaving it out there because maybe the reader SHOULD be expected to speak and read a language other than English for once. Julia's accounts of her family's undocumented status and their harrowing journeys from Mexico are heartbreaking and 100% necessary and relevant, both for readers who are themselves living this life, but also for readers who struggle to understand the reality of living it. Moving on to the writing... this would be a 2 star read for sure if I rated purely based on the writing. It was written quite simplistically, in a way that made me feel like it was aimed at younger readers (think like 11-14 years old). I'm not saying children these ages need things dumbing down, but like I said, it felt very much like a YA book, even though a lot of the themes (suicide attempts, sex) are probably not suited to children of those ages. There were scenes that involved rape and attempted suicide. I don't understand why these were included. They did nothing for the story and the characters. They could be removed and the characters and the ending would still be the same. They didn't grow from these experiences. I felt that these were incorporated just to make this book more edgy or intense. These scenes can be so harmful to others when not dealt with properly. They should not be carelessly thrown around as a plot device.

In 2021, it was announced that America Ferrera will direct a film adaptation of the novel for Netflix, with a script by Linda Yvette Chávez. [17]