This book is about Latina identity, a timely subject in today's America. The author’s journey begins as she, full of love for Mexico and its culture despite her closest blood connection being her , boards a bus. She starts out determined: “Yes foreign is a word for fear. Yes I am coming home.” But then, because “it is afraid, staying in a language where you were not born,” she retreats, hiding first behind , then behind masks. But when it becomes clear that the masks are her true self, she loses her fear, and barrels ahead as , fully committed, all the way to the end.