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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American." -Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow
"l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured." -Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author of The Joy LuckâŠ
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Vargasâs memoir begins, âI do not know where I will be when you read this book.â An undocumented immigrant (and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist) who was brought to the United States from the Philippines as a child, Vargas only learned that he was in the country illegally when he applied for a driverâs license at age 16. In 2011, after two decades in the shadows, Vargas publicly revealed his legal status. His anxious, tireless quest for a driverâs license, like his quest to belong in the only country he knows as home, raises urgent questions about the power of documents andâŠ
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