La Bloga: Review: Malin Alegria, Sofi Mendoza’s Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico

“Malin Alegria’s second novel deserves a wider audience than the publisher’s Books for Young Readers series might suggest. I think kids are going to love the story of a US teen plucked out of her life and deposited in the heart of a Baja California colonia. I know one grandfather who enjoyed it, too. Who wouldn’t? Alegria puts together an arresting tale mixing callow youth and cultural isolation with a rich helping of irony.

Take a spoiled high school senior girl who’s out for a wild time, have her lie her way to a wild weekend on the beach in Rosarito, BC Mexico, her eye on Mr. Hot. Make the girl the assimilated daughter of protective Mexican parents to gauge the enormous gap between Sofi’s innocent expectations of sex and her first experience with a groping boy.”

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