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    612-822-4611

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First Gen: A Memoir

First Gen: A Memoir

Campoverdi, Alejandra

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Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 1538757192
ISBN13: 9781538757192
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: Aug 6 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.28 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!

An unflinching memoir about navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina, offering both a riveting personal story and an examination of the unacknowledged emotional tolls of being a trailblazer.

This is literary love medicine, a book you will not soon forget. ―Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of New York Times bestsellers The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This is How You Lose Her

Alejandra Campoverdi has been a child on welfare, a White House aide to President Obama, a Harvard graduate, a gang member's girlfriend, and a candidate for U.S. Congress. She's ridden on Air Force One and in G-rides. She's been featured in Maxim magazine and had a double mastectomy. Living a life of contradictory extremes often comes with the territory when you're a First and Only. It also comes at a price.

With candor and heart, Alejandra retraces her trajectory as a Mexican American woman raised by an immigrant single mother in Los Angeles. Foregoing the tidy bullet points of her resume and instead shining a light on the spaces between them, what emerges is a powerful testimony that shatters the one-dimensional glossy narrative we are often sold of what it takes to achieve the American Dream. In this timely and revealing reflection, Alejandra draws from her own experiences to name and frame the challenges First and Onlys often face, illuminating a road to truth, healing, and change in the process.

Part memoir, part manifesto, First Gen is a story of generational inheritance, aspiration, and the true meaning of belonging--a gripping journey to reclaim the parts of ourselves we sacrificed in order to survive.

Winner of the Martin Cruz Smith Award (California Independent Bookseller's Alliance)

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