Tag: Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa

The Modern Latina Book Club selected Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa for our next reading. In Once I Was You, Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago. She offers a personal and illuminating account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also sanctioned willful negligence and profiteering at the expense of our country’s most vulnerable populations—charging us with the broken system we have today. Join the Modern Latina Book Club, we start reading this powerful memoir on 3/1/21.