Meeting at Teresia Mexican Grill : 56310 Grand River Ave, New Hudson, MI 48165

Join us for our monthly book discussion. This month we are reading "Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate In a Torn America" by Maria Hinajosa.

Synopsis:

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.

An urgent call to fellow Americans to open their eyes to the immigration crisis and understand that it affects us all, this honest and heartrending memoir paints a vivid portrait of how we got here and what it means to be a survivor, a feminist, a citizen, and a journalist who owns her voice while striving for the truth.