Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America

New York, NY: Scribner, 2009. Reprint. Eighth printing. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed on t-p. Cover has slight wear and soiling.. Glued binding. Paper over boards. viii, 387, [5] p. Helen Thorpe is an author and freelance journalist living in Denver, Colorado, United States who was the First Lady of Colorado following her husband's inauguration until their divorce in 2012. She has written for major American newspapers and magazines, and has authored two books. Thorpe attended Princeton University, graduating Magna Cum Laude. In 1989, she attended Columbia University as a graduate student, receiving a Master's degree in English literature. Her stories have also been published in George, New York, Westword, The New York Times Magazine, and 5280. She wrote Talk of the Town for the The New Yorker, and has written for Slate and Harper's Bazaar. Thorpe also published two books entitled Soldier Girls and Just Like Us, which follows the lives of four Denver girls of Mexican ancestry and deals heavily with aspects of immigration into the United States.