{"product_id":"dear-america-notes-of-an-undocumented-citizen","title":"Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER***\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e***EXPANDED WITH NEW MATERIAL TO REFLECT TRUMP'S SECOND TERM***\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúThis riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American.‚Äù\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄîMichelle Alexander, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Äúl cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured.‚Äù ‚ÄîAmy Tan, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Joy Luck Club\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWhere the Past Begins\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúThis book couldn‚Äôt be more timely and more necessary.‚Äù \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDave Eggers, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat Is the What\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Monk of Mokha\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called ‚Äúthe most famous undocumented immigrant in America,‚Äù tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‚ÄúThis is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book‚Äì‚Äìat its core‚Äì‚Äìis not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored 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 families, keeping them together, and having to make new ones when you can‚Äôt. This book is about constantly hiding from the government and, in the process, hiding from ourselves. This book is about what it means to not have a home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter 25 years of living illegally in a country that does not consider me one of its own, this book is the closest thing I have to freedom.‚Äù\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄîJose Antonio Vargas, from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDear America\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50548217938205,"sku":"9780062851345","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780062851345.jpg?v=1761676063","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/dear-america-notes-of-an-undocumented-citizen","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}