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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 statistics about the knowledge of growing up between cultures.

America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, yet, her identification is inextricably associated with her parents’ homeland and Honduran tradition. Speaking Spanish in the home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales alongside about American Like Me apple pie at Christmas never seemed at odds with her American identity.

Still, she yearned to find out 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 existence between cultures. We realize them as stars, comedians, sportsmen, politicians, performers, and writers. Nevertheless, they are also immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous people, or individuals who otherwise was raised with deep and personal connections to more than one culture. All of them battled to establish a sense of self, find belonging, and feel seen. Plus they contact themselves American enthusiastically, reluctantly, or never.

Ranging from the heartfelt to the hilarious, their stories sparkle a light on a quintessentially American encounter and will appeal to a person with an elaborate relationship to family, culture, and developing up.