Don't Ask Me Where I'm from Reprint ed.

&;A funny, perceptive, and much-needed book telling a much-needed story.&; &;Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestseller Little Fires Everywhere First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand.Liliana Cruz is a hitting a wall&;or rather, walls. There&;s the wall her mom has put up ever since Liliana&;s dad left&;again. There&;s the wall that delineates Liliana&;s diverse inner-city Boston neighborhood from Westburg, the wealthy&;and white&;suburban high school she&;s just been accepted into. And there&;s the wall Liliana creates within herself, because to survive at Westburg, she can&;t just lighten up, she has to whiten up. So what if she changes her name? So what if she changes the way she talks? So what if she&;s seeing her neighborhood in a different way? But then light is shed on some hard truths: It isn&;t that her father doesn&;t want to come home&;he can&;t&;and her whole family is in jeopardy. And when racial tensions at school reach a fever pitch, the walls that divide feel insurmountable. But a wall isn&;t always a barrier. It can be a foundation for something better. And Liliana must choose: Use this foundation as a platform to speak her truth, or risk crumbling under its weight.