The Cactus On My Forehead
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Author: Erika L. Sánchez
language: en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date: 2022-03-03
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM DIRECTED BY AMERICA FERRERA Instant New York Times Bestseller ‘I fell in love with Erika L. Sánchez’ stunning novel... The depth, wit and searing intelligence of her writing, and her young Latina heroine, struck me to my core.’ America Ferrera ‘This gripping debut about a Mexican-American misfit is alive and crackling.’ New York Times ‘A perfect book about imperfection.’ Juan Felipe Herrera The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself. When her sister Olga dies in a tragic accident, Julia is left to pick up the pieces of her family. She is also expected to fill the shoes of her sister. But Julia has never been the perfect Mexican daughter. As Julia struggles to find her place in the world, she discovers Olga was not as perfect as everyone thought. Who was her sister really? And how can Julia even attempt to live up to an impossible ideal?
Bordering on Indifference
Author: Irene I. Vega
language: en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2025-05-06
How a largely Latino/a workforce of immigration agents reconciles the moral ambiguities of its work Immigration agents have a frontline view of the racial, economic, and legal inequalities that undocumented migration reflects—and yet most agents do not think of the role their jobs play in those inequalities. Instead, they consider themselves law enforcers, trained to confine their work strictly to crime control and security. In Bordering on Indifference, Irene Vega offers an original, detailed analysis of the rationales that shape how U.S. immigration agents understand and carry out their professional responsibilities. Drawing on interviews with ninety immigration agents—Border Patrol Agents and ICE Deportation Officers, most of whom are Mexican Americans from the region around the border—Vega examines why they took the job and how their training and socialization shape the ways that they grapple with the racial and moral issues raised by their work. Vega shows that indifference is the bureaucratic resource that allows agents to look away from the most morally ambiguous aspects of their work and helps them cultivate legitimacy for their employer. She traces the development of the agents’ “moral economy”—the configuration of norms, values, and sensibilities that undergirds how they perform their work. She also shows how the immigration system benefits from minoritized bureaucrats’ labor. With Bordering on Indifference, Vega opens the closed doors of nondescript government buildings and goes into remote areas of the Southwestern borderlands to uncover the hidden normative world that immigration enforcement agents inhabit.
Operation Cactus Blossom
Get ready for another thrilling ride with the Prickly Pen Investigations team! From one sticky situation to another prickly one, Jon and Lina are back at it—stronger than ever. This time, Jon and Lina are tackling a mission that hits a little too close to home—the search for Alanna Foster, the last missing teen, aka “Cactus Blossom.” With undercover missions intensifying and the clock ticking, mistakes simply aren’t an option. But while they’re chasing serial wedding crashers, tracking down a friend’s cheating spouse, and racing against time, the real battle is unfolding behind the scenes. Grab your popcorn, ladies and gentlemen, and take a front-row seat to Jon and Lina’s attempts to rebuild their family—and Alanna’s harrowing journey through dual perspectives of both female protagonists. What really happened during the time she was gone? As Alanna’s story of kidnapping, survival, and resilience unfolds, a silver lining emerges that just might make the nightmare worth enduring. With Alanna’s fate hanging in the balance and Jon and Lina’s relationship still a work in progress, they’ll discover that love, like their investigations, is a gamble—sometimes, you have to play to win. Can they rise to the challenge, or will the weight of the past derail everything? Join our favorite private investigators for a thrilling, witty, page-turning adventure in Operation Cactus Blossom, where the stakes are sky-high, but the laughs, heart, and hope never fall short.