American like me

From award-winning actress and political activist 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.