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

Interview from the Miami Book Fair, Int'l 2009. Helen Thorpe, author of Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America (Scribner), is a veteran journalist who worked as a staff writer for The New York Observer, The New Yorker, and Texas Monthly. She lives in Denver, Col,, with her husband John Hickenlooper and their son Teddy. In 2002, she took a year off to work on her husband's successful campaign for mayor. "An excellent, in-depth study of immigration policies gone amok."-- Library Journal