Just Like Us

Helen Thorpe. Just Like Us: the True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America.
Hardcover: 387 pp. Scribner, 2009.

"A powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation, and two do not. Just Like Us is their story." -- Jacket flap

"This is a penetrating, fair, and refreshingly personal examination of the passions that fuel the immigration controversy in this country. Helen Thorpe measures the arguments on both sides of this national debate against the actual human costs imposed by the status quo. This book will find a central place in this debate." -- Lawrence Wright