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03351aam a22004098i 4500 001 95AF018A2AB011EEB48EB53624ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230725010040 008 230415s2023 nyu b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023016024 020 $a 1538757184 020 $a 9781538757185 040 $a LBSOR $b eng $e rda $c LBSOR $d SILO 050 00 $a E184.M5 $b C354 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20230425 100 1 $a Campoverdi, Alejandra, $e author. 245 10 $a FIRST GEN : $b A MEMOIR / $c Alejandra Campoverdi. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2309 264 1 $a New York : $b Grand Central Publishing, $c 2023. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2023/09/12 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Fast car -- Born on the bayou -- Amor eterno -- Keep their heads ringin' -- Crash into me -- Pacific coast party -- How to save a life -- Everlong -- La trenza -- It's only love that gets you through. 520 $a "From former White House aide to President Obama and Harvard graduate, Alejandra Campoverdi, comes a riveting and unflinching memoir on navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina, offering a broad examination of the unacknowledged emotional tolls ofbeing a trailblazer. To be a First and Only in America is a delicate balancing act of surviving where you come from while acting like you belong where you're going. Alejandra Campoverdi has been a child on welfare, a White House aide to President Obama,a gang member's girlfriend, and a candidate for U.S. Congress. She's ridden on Air Force One and in G-rides. She's modeled on the pages of Maxim and had a double mastectomy. Living a life of contradictory extremes often comes with the territory when you're 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 shining a light onthe spaces between them instead. What emerges is a moving testimony of personal struggle and triumph that shatters the one-dimensional glossy narrative we are often sold of what it takes to achieve the American Dream. Alejandra uses her own experiences to illustrate the emotional tolls First and Onlys often face that are widespread yet rarely acknowledged, providing a road to truth and healing in the process. It is a timely and revealing reflection, as social class continues to be a key determinant of career success. Part memoir, part manifesto, FIRST GEN is a story of generational inheritance, aspiration, and belonging - a poignant journey to "reclaim the parts of ourselves we sacrificed in order to survive.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Campoverdi, Alejandra. 650 0 $a Mexican American women $v Biography 650 0 $a Children of immigrants $z United States $v Biography. 610 10 $a United States. $b White House Communications Office $x Officials and employees $v Biography 650 0 $a Breast $x Genetic aspects. $x Genetic aspects. $9 105227 941 $a 5 952 $l PGAX715 $d 20240314110849.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125011132.0 952 $l ENPC715 $d 20231205010948.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032055.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230725010120.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95AF018A2AB011EEB48EB53624ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search