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    <body><![CDATA[well basically if you want a scandalous summary of my place of employment, read this. Written by an ASF grad who is a bit full of herself and writes in the voice of an ego-centric teenage girl (aren't all teenage girls ego-centric?), perhaps who she was... perhaps who she is.. I am not sure. But it'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44761650">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As a novel about the experiences of an American in Mexico(in this case, Milagro a high school senior whose diplomat mother is posted to Mexico City) this book succeeds beautifully.  The vitality and unwieldiness of the city and the hedonistic lifestyles of the wealthiest young people are also loving...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53788636">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wild ride through an International High School in Mexico City, Mexico as seen through the eyes of recent transplant, Milagros &quot;Mila&quot; Marquez.  I really enjoyed Monroy's vivid characters and the twists and turns of the plot in this book.  Mila is a teenager with wild emotions and sometimes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56520358">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This review appeared in the Coral Gables Gazette:<br/><br/><br/>‘Mexican High’: Immersion into the steamy city<br/>Posted on Thu, Jun. 26, 2008<br/><br/>By Kris Liaugminas<br/><br/>kris@cggazette.com<br/><br/>New York based author Liza Monroy has written articles for the New York Times...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13015206">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mexican High by Liza Monroy (Spiegel &amp; Grau). This one just came out in paperback with a cool new cover (pictured). Milagro &quot;Mila&quot; Marquez, spends her senior year at the International School of Mexico, where she encounters snobby ultra-rich cliques, easy drugs and, eventually, a few truths...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76693464">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The cover of this book is so wrong, since it takes place during Mila's senior year from 1993-1994, and a pleated skirt and a flannel shirt would have been a much better fit. But I suppose that's just me judging a book by it's cover. Really, how can I not be fond of a coming-of-age book about my era ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63495079">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very quick- read on plane from CDG to IAD. Interesting look at Mexican City's elite class and their teenagers (the next Mexican leaders) from an &quot;American&quot; girl who spends her senior year in high school at a Mexico school.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This author really got Mexico City's essence in her book. I, as a native from Mexico and a former resident of Mexico City found myself transported to the &quot;DF&quot; as we, its residents call this massive, enourmous city and made me long for it.]]></body>
    
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