Expensive America: New York Bestselling Book by Undocumented Writer

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Michelle Alexander, the bestselling author of "The New Jim Crow," hails this brave and riveting memoir as essential reading for all Americans.

"Reading this new book was a profound experience for me. It provided extra insight into the struggles my parents faced in America." — Amy Tan , New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins

This book is not only timely but also essential. Praised by Dave Eggers, a bestselling author known for works like What Is the What and The Monk of Mokha, this new release is a must-read for anyone interested in America's current state.

Pulitzer-Prize profitable journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, referred to as “essentially the most well-known undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of many defining problems with our time on this explosive and deeply private name to arms.

“This isn’t a e-book in regards to the politics of immigration. This e-book––at its core––is just not about immigration in any respect. This e-book is about homelessness, not in a conventional sense, however within the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself discover ourselves in. This e-book is about mendacity and being pressured to deceive get by; about passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about households, protecting them collectively, and having to make new ones when you may’t. This e-book is about continuously hiding from the federal government and, within the course of, hiding from ourselves. This e-book is about what it means to not have a house.

After 25 years of dwelling illegally in a rustic that doesn’t take into account me one in all its personal, this e-book is the closest factor I’ve to freedom.”

—Jose Antonio Vargas, from  Expensive America