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#1 I was flying back to the country of my birth with my wife, Rubi, after a twenty-year absence. I looked out the window at the desert below and realized that even though it seemed endless, the landscape had limits.
#2 My mother, the youngest of seven children, was born in 1958. She could never remember the song her father had whistled as he approached their ranch on...
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
A 2020 International Latino Book Award Finalist
An Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year
This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2020]
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English
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"With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his familys encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his fathers deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his...