I Am My Father's Daughter: Living a Life Without Secrets

by Liz Balmaseda and María Elena Salinas

Book Overview

Five nights a week, María Elena Salinas looks into a television camera and delivers the news to millions of television viewers. But when the newscast is over, she is like so many other women across the country: a wife and a mother, struggling to find balance between her personal and professional life. When María Elena accidentally discovers her recently deceased father had once been a Catholic priest, all she knew was suddenly thrown into question...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060765062
• ISBN13: 9780060765064
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!

I had to read this book for a class. The book was amazing and very interesting! I love the book!! Worth buying and reading!

Un Viaje al Pasado

Esta es una de las autobiografias mas sorprendentes y al mismo tiempo encantadoras porque describe la historia de amor de sus papas como muy linda. Sufrida por parte de los dos, porque tuvieron que dejarlo todo y vivir en un lugar y en otro, cuidandose y protegiendo a sus hijas y mantiendolas alejadas de su propia familia.

Interesante libro autobiografico

Atrapa tu atencion y te lleva sin esfuerzo a traves de una historia que no queres que termine por diferente y culturalmente interesante; con situaciones que a veces te podes identificar. A pesar de algunos errores de redaccion, fue un placer leerlo en espanol.

Excellent autobiographical sketch of the immigrant experience.

This book is her own autobiographical sketch from the viewpoint of a daughter of an immigrant, journalist and social commentator; she puts together her whole as a person and brings the reader down to the conclusion that as an individual we are what are parents shaped us to be. As a reporter she documents and researches her family roots that she thought she knew until her fathers best friend gives her fathers box of secrets, then and there she realizes that she really didn't know who her father really was. From that point on she goes through a chilling journey of discovering her own roots and eventhough she doesn't find all the correct answers , every step of the way she discovers more about herself and how important family values are for the individual. This is my own conclusion from her readings, we are who we are do to our predessesors.