First Gen: A Memoir - Alejandra Campoverdi
Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Tags: Autobiography & Biographies
*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER* An unflinching memoir and resource (People) about navigating social mobility as a first gen Latinaoffering both a riveting personal story and an examination of the unacknowledged emotional tolls of being a trailblazer., Alejandra Campoverdi has been a child on welfare, a White House aide to President Obama, a Harvard graduate, a gang members girlfriend, and a candidate for U.S. Congress. Shes ridden on Air Force One and in G-rides. Shes been featured in Maxim magazine and had a double mastectomy. Living a life of contradictory extremes often comes with the territory when youre 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
