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Lädt ... Children of the Landvon Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
   Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  overlycriticalelisa | Apr 26, 2024 |   This book is an opportunity for people who never have to worry about being harassed or detained just for existing to understand the perspective of those who do. Unfortunately, there is a lot of filler that gets in the way. The author, a poet by profession, writes extensively about his weird perspectives, which I didn't find interesting or relevant. I skimmed the better part of the book. (  ) KGLT | Nov 3, 2022 |  ) KimZoot | Jan 2, 2022 | This is a solid memoir about the immigrant experience. Castillo was five years old, when he crossed the border with his family. For the next 2 decades, it becomes a story of survival. Tales of deportation and displacement, a family, struggling to find footing in America, against draconian policies. The writing is good but could have used a little editing. Castillo is also a poet, so I would like to sample some of his poetry. (  ) msf59 | May 28, 2021 | ) gkraus | May 18, 2021 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML: An Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Book of 2020 This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man's attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. When Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, he suffered temporary, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family's encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his father's deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry, and of his mother's heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. Children of the Land distills the trauma of displacement, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. .Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.18)
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"So much of my energy was spent trying to avoid getting caught. I wonder how much more I could have done with my life if I'd been spared the energy it took to survive." (