Growing up grown is written by David Jacobsen is about him and his non-English speaking mom and what they went through. His mother brought him to the U.S. so that he could have a better life. All of his life he had to be his mother's translator because she did not know any English. She worked as a bartender in the early 90s and then began working as an exotic dancer because of economic need in northern New Jersey. One day an undercover cop came into his mother's job and watched her dance. He then slipped a dollar into her belt, and she was charged with a felony for prostitution. She needed to clear her record before applying for a citizenship. His mother’s financial situation was in such despair she was left in the street and she