Traveling Across The Country, Journalist Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Risked Arrest At Every Turn To Report The Extraordinary Stories Of Her Fellow Undocumented Americans. Her Subjects Have Every Reason To Be Wary Around Reporters, But Cornejo Villavicencio Has Unmatched Access To Their Stories. Her
The Undocumented Americans
β Scribed by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Random House Publishing Group 2020.
- ISBN
- 0399592695
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β¦ Synopsis
**One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.
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"Karla's book sheds light on people's personal experiences and allows their stories to be told and their voices to be heard." --Selena Gomez
Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she'd tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration lawyer's phone number on her hand in Sharpie and embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants--and to find the hidden key to her own.
Looking beyond the flashpoints of the border or the activism of the DREAMers, Cornejo Villavicencio explores the lives of...
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