Expensive America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“This riveting, brave memoir should be obligatory studying for each American.”  —Michelle Alexander, New York Occasions bestselling writer of The New Jim Crow

“l cried studying this e-book, realizing extra totally what my dad and mom endured.” —Amy Tan, New York Occasions bestselling writer of The Pleasure Luck Membership and The place the Previous Begins

“This e-book couldn’t be extra well timed and extra mandatory.” —Dave Eggers, New York Occasions bestselling writer of What Is the What and The Monk of Mokha

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