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| Mexican High: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Liza Monroy
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (20 reviews)
Sales Rank: 243413
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.8
ISBN: 0385523599
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780385523592
ASIN: 0385523599
Publication Date: June 10, 2008
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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Give yourself a gift: READ MEXICO HIGH! July 20, 2008
Fantastic!! So fun to read, and Liza Monroy's brilliant words left me full of Mexico's culture- I heard the music, I smelled the food, I felt the warped political-social world.
As the characters are international students, their shared life is fascinating to watch. Our heroine Mila reaches out and blends into her next life when repeatitively uprooted and displaced to new parts of the world. Mila reminds us that home is a state of mind, not a location. And culture is the creative result of people living life together.
I love Mexican High!! I remembered how to be a part of my own culture- to just be there!
Oh, oh, down in Mexico July 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm taking as a given all the things other people have said about the amazing way Monroy brings Mexico City to life, and works the city into the narrative here as a character in and of itself. What they who have come before me have said? It is indeed true, all true. But I'm taking the soapbox now to give a shout out to Monroy for bringing a convincing, sympathetic teenage character to the page. Teens too often get the shaft in all forms of media, from teen magazines to legitimate literature, television, and film. Mila, on the other hand, is a real person, not one of those one-dimensional cliches that teens are so often portrayed as. She reminds us of how hard and confusing and seminal those years of our lives are. (Do you remember? 'Cause I sure as hell do.) Mila is like Angela Chase gone wild and let loose in high society Mexico. In other words: a teenager, lost like so many of them, but lost in a way that everyone who has ever been a teenager can relate to. She is convincing and human and sympathetic; she's the kind of character we need on every page we pick up to read.
Plus, the pop culture references sprinkled throughout the book are the perfect details to set the backdrop for a coming-of-age story in the early and mid-nineties. If this book gets made into a movie or a tv series or a mini series or a teen soap or whatever (as I agree with a bunch of others reviewers that it should be), the soundtrack will be totally rock and roll, baby! Tomorrow is the first day of my new mission in life: to bring flannel back into vogue as a wardrobe staple.
Great read June 27, 2008
Even if you can't personally relate to the book because you have never been to Mexico, it's a great read. I was immediately sucked into the story. Anyone who loves these types of coming of age stories (and even those who don't!) will be pleased by the author's unique voice and excellent writing exhibited in "Mexican High."
As Fast and Furious as Its Setting--Mexico City June 26, 2008
The heart of this novel is the compelling heroine who shows us Mexico City with the innocence, experimentation and awe that could only inhabit a precocious teenager. Reading this novel along crowded subway cars transported me to a distant vibrant and vibrating locale. Read it!
So real! June 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have to admit that I mainly bought this book because I actually went to the high school in Mexico City which Monroy attended, and on which the book's fictional high school is "loosely based." Still, I was pleasantly surprised to find a book that portrays beautifully the real Mexico City, not just the Mexico City that tourists "fall in love" with and then write about superficially. Monroy captures the addictive quality of Mexico city, while also telling an engaging story full of multidimensional characters. I bought it on the day it came out and could not put it down until I finished it that very night. Highly recommend it to anyone.
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