The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

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She lives in New Haven with her partner and their dog. Times Book PrizeĪbout the Author: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio has written about immigration, music, beauty, and mental illness for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the New Republic, Glamour, Elle, Vogue, n+1 and the New Inquiry, among others. Shortlisted for a National Book Award, a National Book Critics' Circle Award and an L.A. And through it all we see the author grappling with the biggest questions of love, duty, family, and survival. The stories she tells are not deferential or naively inspirational but show the love, magic, heartbreak, insanity, and vulgarity that infuse the day-to-day lives of her subjects. She finds the singular, effervescent characters across the nation often reduced in the media to political pawns or nameless laborers. In her incandescent, relentlessly probing voice, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio combines sensitive reporting and powerful personal narratives to bring to light remarkable stories of resilience, madness, and death. So she wrote her immigration lawyer's phone number on her hand 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. Right after the election of 2016, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio realized the story she'd tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans. Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities.Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides.Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides.Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous.Inventions & Technology: General Interest.Environment & Ecology: General Interest.Popular Culture & Media: General Interest.Politics & Government: Textbooks & Study Guides.

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio