- New York Times reviewed, Illegal aliens, Biography, Social conditions
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.
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Contemporary, earnest, prestige and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- One World, Swift
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781800750395
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