Undocumented Americans

In "The Undocumented Americans," Karla Cornejo Villavicencio reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented immigrants and explores the complexities of love, duty, family, and survival. A New York Times best book of 2020, the book was shortlisted for a National Book Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and an L.A. Times Book Prize.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 03 June 2021
Publisher: Swift Press

A New York Times best book of 2020, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's memoir is a powerful exploration of the hidden lives of undocumented immigrants in the United States. The author, one of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard, embarked on a journey across the country to tell the stories of her fellow immigrants and to uncover the hidden key to her own identity. Through her incandescent and relentlessly probing voice, Cornejo Villavicencio combines sensitive reporting and powerful personal narratives to bring to light remarkable stories of resilience, madness, and death. She finds the singular, effervescent characters across the nation often reduced in the media to political pawns or nameless laborers, and through her stories, she reveals the love, magic, heartbreak, insanity, and vulgarity that infuse their day-to-day lives. The memoir is also a deeply personal exploration of the author's own struggles with love, duty, family, and survival, and it is shortlisted for a National Book Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and an L.A. Times Book Prize.

Weight: 230g
Dimension: 137 x 216 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800750395