Reviews

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by María Hinojosa

birdinflight1's review against another edition

5.0

This was a very well-written book! I loved hearing her story, both of her personal and professional lives as a Latina and as a woman.

I am still processing what I read about the horror of the detention camps.

Highly recommend!

sydleit's review

emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

alsoannabanana's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

mbp_918's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

aquintela's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

rifelife's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Pretty impressive to write a memoir that is also an exposé of American immigrant “policy.” Hinojosa is one of my local library’s featured author lectures this season, and I’m so glad because otherwise I might not have found this book.

theythemsam's review against another edition

4.0

I liked listening to the stories of immigration throughout the decades through a journalist’s eyes who also could relate to the people she was interviewing. I feel like I would’ve liked this book more if I had even an inkling of more journalism history under my belt, but I still was able to enjoy this nonetheless 

allyreadabook's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

aimeevancleave's review against another edition

informative inspiring

5.0

bookgoodfeelgood's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0