Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines
Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines
Author: Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Desc: Growing up in a half-white half-brown town and family in South Texas Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty she ventured to her mother's native Mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core. Mexican Enough chronicles her adventures rumbling with luchadores (professional wrestlers) marching with rebel teachers in Oaxaca investigating the murder of a prominent gay activist and sneaking into a prison to meet with indigenous resistance fighters. She also visits families of the undocumented workers she befriended back home. Travel mates include a Polish thief a Border Patrol agent and a sultry dominatrix. Part memoir part journalistic reportage Mexican Enough illuminates how we cast off our identity in our youth only to strive to find it again as adults -- and the lessons to be learned along the way.