Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety
- Author Yvonne Castañeda
- Narrator Frankie Corzo
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Run Time 8 hours and 10 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Drugs and addiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Eating disorders, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Mental health, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Self-awareness and self-esteem.
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What to expect
In Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety, Yvonne Castañeda shares vibrant stories of her childhood growing up in Miami as the daughter of humble immigrants from Mexico and Cuba … and how she came to develop an unhealthy relationship with food.
To help ease her mami’s nervios, Yvonne becomes a perfectionist from a young age, achieving high grades at school and mastering the piano. But as her Cuban family members openly make comments about her awkward desarrollo, or puberty, Yvonne enters a new phase of self-consciousness that begins her obsession with weight.
She abandons the piano for the high school cheerleading team and reinvents herself, becoming both skinny and popular. However, as a first-generation adolescent born in the United States, Yvonne wrestles with the conflict between the cultural norms of her Hispanic/Latino heritage and American societal expectations.
Plagued by doubt and low self-esteem, Yvonne begins a vicious cycle of weight gain and loss as she battles bulimia nervosa. Beleaguered by feelings of guilt, shame, and inferiority, she develops anxiety, depression, and a reliance on dangerous coping mechanisms.
Ultimately, sage advice from her dear abuela in Guadalajara, Mexico, guides Yvonne to a realization that shifts her perspective of herself and the purpose of her life, providing a foundation for inner peace and la solución to her past struggles.
Critics Review
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“An astonishing memoir, overflowing with compassion, honesty, and hope. Castañeda fearlessly captures how immigration can eat the body and the lifelong healing that such injuries require. One of the bravest debuts I’ve read in years.”
Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author -
“With deprecating humor and razor-sharp honesty, the clinical psychotherapist recounts her life—from birth to age 45—with the nostalgic feel of an older sister sharing advice…This exploration of mental health from the Latinx perspective fills a much-needed gap.”
School Library Journal -
“Castañeda has written a book for anyone who seeks to understand mental health from within. Her down-to-earth approach and wit made me laugh, while at the same time she masterfully guided me through the complexity of eating disorders. A must-read!”
Rocío Calvo, PhD, Founding-Director of Latinx Leadership Initiative at Boston College
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