The New American - Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Descriere The New American - Micheline Aharonian Marcom

\nThis harrowing, heartbreaking story (Kirkus Reviews) depicts the epic journey of a young Guatemalan American college student, a dreamer, who gets deported and decides to make his way back home to California. \nOne day, Emilio learns the shocking secret: he is undocumented. His parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, had never told him. \n \nEmilio slowly adjusts to his new normal. All is going well, he's in his second year at UC Berkeley...then he gets into a car accident, and--without a driver's license or any ID--the policeman on the scene reports him to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). \n \nOnce deported to Guatemala, Emilio is determined to get back to California, the only home he has ever known. It is an epic journey that takes him across thousands of miles and eventually the Sonoran Desert of the United States-Mexico border, meeting thieves and corrupt law enforcement but also kind strangers and new friends. \n \nInspired in part by interviews with Central American refugees, and told in lyrical prose, Micheline Aharonian Marcom weaves a powerful, heartbreaking (Publishers Weekly) tale of adventure. In The New American, Marcom depicts inhumanity with visceral force, but her bracing empathy (and hope) shines above all (Entertainment Weekly). This is a compassionate story of one young man who risks so much to return home.\n

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Brand

SIMON & SCHUSTER

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9781982120733

Magazine

1

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