"Mulatto: Daughter of America" is a heartbreaking memoir by Florencia B Lachance about her dysfunctional childhood where a safe multicultural family life is ruined when she is 5 years old and her parents are divorced. Her mother marries a sadistic, child-abusing white man and Florencia B Lachance has to live her childhood in fear for her stepfather and with a twisted mother-daughter relationship as her mothers brought this cruel man into her life. At age 13 her mother gives Florencia B Lachance away and in her teenage years she is shuffled in and out of foster homes, experimental schools and juvenile halls. At age 16 she is finally free. But it does not feel like freedom as Florencia discovers who her biological father was. Instead, she is struggling with her self-identity and low self-esteem. What is her place in this world? “Mulatto: Daughter of America” is a memoir that hurts to read but it is also extremely inspiring to read about the author's way of leaving abuse and pain behind to realize her dreams. “Mulatto: Daughter of America” is a great memoir but it is also a self-help book to build self-confidence step by step.