03464cam a2200433 i 4500 1377501958 OCLC 20250627153935.0 230415s2023 nyu b 000 0aeng 2023016024 9781538757185 1538757184 Grand Central Pub, C/O Little Brown & Co Order Dept 53 State st 9th Fl, Boston, MA, USA, 02109 SAN 200-2205 AJMM n-us--- E184.M5 C354 2023 305.48/86872073092 B 23/eng/20230425 Campoverdi, Alejandra, author. 20858 First gen : a memoir / Alejandra Campoverdi. First edition. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2023. 273 pages : 22 cm text txt rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. Includes bibliographical references. Fast car -- Born on the bayou -- Amor eterno -- Keep their heads ringin' -- Crash into me -- Pacific coast party -- How to save a life -- Everlong -- La trenza -- It's only love that gets you through. "From former White House aide to President Obama and Harvard graduate, Alejandra Campoverdi, comes a riveting and unflinching memoir on navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina, offering a broad examination of the unacknowledged emotional tolls ofbeing a trailblazer. To be a First and Only in America is a delicate balancing act of surviving where you come from while acting like you belong where you're going. Alejandra Campoverdi has been a child on welfare, a White House aide to President Obama,a gang member's girlfriend, and a candidate for U.S. Congress. She's ridden on Air Force One and in G-rides. She's modeled on the pages of Maxim and had a double mastectomy. Living a life of contradictory extremes often comes with the territory when you're a "First and Only." It also comes at a price. With candor and heart, Alejandra retraces her trajectory as a Mexican American woman raised by an immigrant single mother in Los Angeles, foregoing the tidy bullet points of her resume and shining a light onthe spaces between them instead. What emerges is a moving testimony of personal struggle and triumph that shatters the one-dimensional glossy narrative we are often sold of what it takes to achieve the American Dream. Alejandra uses her own experiences to illustrate the emotional tolls First and Onlys often face that are widespread yet rarely acknowledged, providing a road to truth and healing in the process. It is a timely and revealing reflection, as social class continues to be a key determinant of career success. Part memoir, part manifesto, FIRST GEN is a story of generational inheritance, aspiration, and belonging - a poignant journey to "reclaim the parts of ourselves we sacrificed in order to survive.""-- Provided by publisher. Campoverdi, Alejandra. 20858 United States. White House Communications Office Officials and employees Biography. 20859 Mexican American women Biography. 20860 Children of immigrants United States Biography. 20861 Breast Cancer Genetic aspects. 20862 Erogenous body parts. homoit 20863 Secondary sex characteristics. homoit 20864 .b180833972 ddc BOOK 30751 30751 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ B 2025-06-27 0 B CAMP 39056 2025-06-27 28.00 2025-06-27 BOOK 1