![]() Looking beyond the flashpoints of the border or the activism of the DREAMers, Cornejo Villavicencio explores the lives of the undocumented-and the mysteries of her own life. ![]() 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. 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. Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, BOOK RIOT, LIBRARY JOURNAL, AND TIME. ![]() “Karla’s book sheds light on people’s personal experiences and allows their stories to be told and their voices to be heard.”-Selena GomezįINALIST FOR THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD AWARD ![]() 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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