American Like Me Audiobook (Free)

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From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied assortment of first-person accounts from prominent numbers about the knowledge 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 tradition. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales alongside about American Like Me apple pie at Xmas never appeared at chances with her American identification.

Still, she yearned to see that identity reflected in the bigger American narrative.

Today, in American Like Me, America invites thirty-one of her close friends, peers, and heroes to talk about their tales about existence between cultures. We realize them as stars, comedians, sportsmen, politicians, artists, and writers. Nevertheless, also, they are immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous people, or people who otherwise was raised with deep and personal contacts to several culture. Each of them struggled to establish a sense of self, find belonging, and feel seen. Plus they call themselves American enthusiastically, reluctantly, or never.

Which range from the heartfelt to the hilarious, their stories sparkle a light on a quintessentially American encounter and will charm to anyone with a complicated relationship to family members, culture, and growing up.