Dear America

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER ΓÇ£This riveting,courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöMichelle AlexanderNew York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow ΓÇ£l cried reading this bookrealizing more fully what my parents endured.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöAmy TanNew York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins ΓÇ£This book couldnΓÇÖt be more timely and more necessary.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöDave EggersNew York Times bestselling author of What Is the What and The Monk of Mokha Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargascalled ΓÇ£the most famous undocumented immigrant in AmericaΓÇ¥ tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms. ΓÇ£This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This bookΓÇôΓÇôat its coreΓÇôΓÇôis not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessnessnot in a traditional sensebut in the unsettledunmoored 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 familieskeeping them togetherand having to make new ones when you canΓÇÖt. This book is about constantly hiding from the government andin the processhiding 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 ownthis book is the closest thing I have to freedom.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöJose Antonio Vargasfrom Dear America