Alejandra Campoverdi

Campoverdi’s memoir details her experiences and that of her family, particularly the women. From growing up poor in a single-parent household with her grandmother, three aunts, and mother, the author writes about her path from Los Angeles to Harvard to the White House.

She speaks about her anxiety and her feelings of not belonging, her struggles with debilitating panic attacks, and feeling like an imposter. She frames all this in what she calls being a “First and Only.”

Her story is an interesting one, but I didn’t really connect with her experiences, and felt she was not fully identifying the causes of her feelings of inadequacy.

Were it not a book-club selection, I probably would not have picked it up.… (plus d'informations)