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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, Vargas, Jose Antonio, 9780062851

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9780062851352

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062851357
ISBN-13
9780062851352
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242558946

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dear America : Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Emigration & Immigration, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Civics & Citizenship, United States / General
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Travel, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Jose Antonio Vargas
Format
Hardcover

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0.9 in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz
Item Length
7.6 in
Item Width
5.1 in

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LCCN
2018-031550
Reviews
A gripping and urgent new book...It's to our great collective benefit that Vargas has brought such voice, uplift and vision to the pages of Dear America, for all to see.|9780062851352|, In Dear America, we get to know a young Vargas who was constantly told to stay in the shadows but whose tenacity and devotion had other plans for him., Dear America is a potent rejoinder to those who tell Vargas he's supposed to 'get in line' for citizenship., A thought-provoking, moving, and highly personal memoir of Vargas's struggle to belong. Recommended for all readers interested in immigration issues and American identity., Jose Antonio Vargas's powerful memoir is among many things a celebration of the millions of Americans who make immigrants like us feel at home in their country, regardless of our legal status, regardless of how much daily hostility we face. May this book cause their ranks to swell., [Dear America] is the voice of one man balancing between the poles of his identity. No matter one's status, that's something everyone can relate to., Jose Antonio Vargas's eloquent and emotional book bears witness to a basic truth: we should not be defined by our legal status, but by who we are...His voice is an important voice that needs to be heard by all Americans, whether they are Americans by birth or by choice., Vargas writes with a newspaper reporter's spare, forceful prose, but he's searching and highly introspective.
Synopsis
My name is Jose Antonio Vargas. I was born in the Philippines. When I was twelve, my mother sent me to the United States to live with her parents. While applying for a driver's permit, I found out my papers were fake. More than two decades later, I am still here illegally, with no clear path to American citizenship. To some people, I am the "most famous illegal" in America. In my mind, I am only one of an estimated 11 million human beings whose uncertain fate is under threat in a country I call my home. This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book-at its core-is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but about the unsettled, unmoored psychological state in which undocumented immigrants like me find ourselves. This book is about lying and being forced to lie to get by; about passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about families, keeping them together, and having to make new ones when you can't. This book is about what it means to not have a home., THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER "This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American." --Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow "l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured." --Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins "This book couldn't be more timely and more necessary." --Dave Eggers, New York Times bestselling author of What Is the What and The Monk of Mokha Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called "the most famous undocumented immigrant in America," tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms. "This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book--at its core--is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves in. This book is about lying and being forced to lie to get by; about passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about families, keeping them together, and having to make new ones when you can't. This book is about constantly hiding from the government and, in the process, hiding from ourselves. This book is about what it means to not have a home. After 25 years of living illegally in a country that does not consider me one of its own, this book is the closest thing I have to freedom." --Jose Antonio Vargas, from Dear America
LC Classification Number
PN4874.V37V37 2018

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