How to Be a Chicana Role Model

I thought this book was cleaver, hysterical and insightful. After reading some of the reviews I thought it was gonna be subpar, but, I found it to be an excellent easy read. With some very interesting metaphors and ironies. I really liked the chapter about living in mexico with white girls ("white socks"). I thought that was fantastic. I can really relate to many of the experiences in this book. I highly recommend this book, don't let the reviews scare you off. it's easy to be an critic these days.

I just put the book down, I can't wait to read Chicana Falsa. The best thing about the book is that it dealt with the life of a young and struggling Chicana with humor. For the non-Chicanas, it is a great glimpse into our world.

I'm always searching for new "reads" and something that is stimulating from up and comming Latino/a writers. After finding Serros recent book, I could not put it down. She writes clearly and is very imaginative. It is also great to see her Oxnard/el Rio hometown upbringing through out the book - being from Oxnard myself I could definetly relate! This book is also a great and important read not only for Latinas but Latinos as well. If there is one comment that I would make is that Michele needs to start expanding her content - with her creativity I would like to see her writing talent in the fiction arena.

"How to be a Chicana Role Model" was really an inspiration to read, considering I personally had trouble thinking that others could view chicanos and role models in a single sentence. Being a chicana myself, I started thinking like what others viewed me as and became insecure. I had trouble identifying as american because i don't look caucasian and I couldn't be seen as mexican by my own people, because i don't tend to fit the stereotype. I felt like "Ni de aqui, ni de alla". I appreciate how Michele Serros addresses that issue in both her books and how she really wants the world to know that she is proud of what she is. I know that makes me as a latina,proud right along with her. As a college student here at UC Berkeley I totally recommend this book to EVERYONE! If you aren't chicano, so what? At least you will experience through michele what being chicano is all about. she brings her story to life! By the way, Thank you cris for recommending this book to me!

When I read Chicana falsa, I loved Michelle Serros's sense of humor, and her ability to make the best of a negative situation, and her collection of advice on How to be A Chicana Roll model was not a dissapointment. I looked forward to this novel and I am sad that it has ended. Thank you Michelle for making light of a serious issue, showing not weakness but a lot of strenght. Look forward to your next one.