MEXICAN HOOSIER
A Memoir of the In-Between
The Story of the In-Between
I grew up hearing that I had to choose: American or Mexican. Indiana or Jalisco. Cornfields or volcanic earth. But the truth is this—I was always both.
Mexican Hoosier is my memoir of that in-between space: the borderless stretch of identity where a girl becomes a bridge, where shame becomes belonging, and where two cultures stop fighting each other inside one body and finally learn to speak.
This memoir is for anyone who has ever been told they were “too much” of one thing and “not enough” of another.
Why This Story Matters Now
At a time when immigration, citizenship, and identity are national battlegrounds, Mexican Hoosier offers a deeply human story of the cultural cost—and beauty—of living between worlds.
I write for the bicultural, the first-generation, the diaspora children, and for anyone who has ever felt the border inside their own body.
I also write for every Hoosier and every American who wants to understand what it means to be shaped by two homelands.
How the Memoir is Being Written
Mexican Hoosier is being written in public through a daily sentence practice and weekly Sunday pages, shared on Threads.
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