Dear America : Notes of an Undocumented Citizen Paperback - 2019
by Vargas, Jose Antonio
- Used
Description
Details
- Title Dear America : Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
- Author Vargas, Jose Antonio
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Date 2019-09-03
- Bookseller's Inventory # 18043028-6
- ISBN 9780062851345 / 0062851349
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.5 x 5 x 0.7 in (19.05 x 12.70 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Modern
- Dewey Decimal Code 304.873
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From the rear cover
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.
