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    <![CDATA[Mexican High: A Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[The daughter of an American diplomat, Mila has spent her childhood moving from country to country. When her mother is reassigned to Mexico City for Mila&#8217;s senior year of high school, Mila has no idea what to expect. Mexico seems to be a country with the ultimate freedoms: the wealthy students at her private international school&#8212;the sons and daughters of Mexico&#8217;s ruling class&#8212;party hard at exclusive clubs, dress in expensive clothing, and see more of their housekeepers than they do their globe-trotting parents. But Mila has more in common with them than they know: her father, whose identity has been kept from her, is a high-ranking politician with whom Mila&#8217;s mother had a one-night stand in her hippie days. Now Mila is determined to discover who he is, whatever the cost may be.<br/><br/>A novel that covers the same adolescent terrain as <em>Prep</em>,<em> </em>though in an entirely different landscape<em>, Mexican High</em> is an eye-opening, page-turning coming-of-age story about identity, belonging, and first love.  In a setting rife with sex, drugs, and political corruption, it is also a revealing look at elite Mexican society, and its freedoms, dangers, and excesses. Monroy&#8217;s flawless evocation of the brink of adulthood, in many ways mirrored by the turmoil of Mexico City itself, makes this a truly memorable debut.]]>
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