"On this journey south across cultures, travel-writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest takes to the road to prove to herself she is Mexican enough. She is an honest storyteller for not only does she invite us along for the ride, she allows us to witness her own cultural humiliations -- how else does a traveler learn? Along the route we cross borders of class, of sexuality, of high and low culture, of political naiveté and idealism. Are we tourists or anthropologists, are we with the oppressed or part of their oppression? There are no easy answers. This is a travel journal for the new millennium, a biracial woman searching for herself among the complexities of the borderlands."

-- Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street, Caramelo

"Stephanie Elizondo Griest dances where others fear to tread. The insouciant tone of this funny book hides deeper revelations. Although you can certainly read it as a breezy--if startling--travel romp (who can forget the Mexican sex-supermarket, where women can say a password and be ushered into a salon of Sapphic delights while the grocers in front fill their shopping carts for them), you can also explore areas of personal identity and ethnic idiosyncracies that many writers don't touch. There were several places in this book where I said, 'No, you can't say that.' I am glad she did."

-- Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The Hummingbird's Daughter, The Devil's Highway

"Elizondo Griest takes us on a wild ride through the jungles of Chiapas, the gay sex shops of Queretero, and the striking teachers of Oaxaca, and never shies away from her own difficult journey along the way. I can't think of anyone who does a better job of capturing the people and places that inhabit the soul of a country. She grants us access into the hidden corners of a Mexico we've only heard about, with her own brand of humor, spot-on wisdom, and heart."

-- Michelle Herrera Mulligan, editor of Borderline Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and Cultural Shifting

"Mexican Enough is a revealing expose of one woman’s identity struggle to live between two cultures and two worlds, and yet not fully belong to either. It is poignant, sincere and typical of what many immigrants are experiencing in the United States today. By sharing her story, Stephanie Elizondo Griest has brought this issue to the forefront of our society and in the process, discovered that only through acceptance of her birthright can she truly define her own existence."

-- Teresa Rodriguez, author of The Daughters of Juarez

“Elizondo’s Mexican memoir is a bumpy road trip down a far less traveled camino, along which she discovers an alternative Mexico inhabited by members of its burgeoning gay community, decked out luchadores, and virtual ghost towns created by the massive exodus of Mexicans to “el norte.” However, it is first and foremost an intimate passage in search of the author’s Mexican roots in which she finds herself reflected in the lives and struggles of those whose stories would never be told if not through this remarkable work.”

-- Michael Schuessler, author of Elena Poniatowska: An Intimate Biography