"The American Dream is not my story," writes Jessica Hoppe. If anything, she writes in her new memoir First in the Family, the idea of the American dream has held her back. Hoppe describes her parents' journey from Honduras and Ecuador to the United States, her family's journey from dysfunction to stability and her own journey from addiction to sobriety. The memoir's central claim is that all of these journeys are related and that they must all be seen through the lens of racism and colonialism.