Children of the land : a memoir
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Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Status
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
813.6 CASTILLO
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813.6 CASTILLO
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Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-362).
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"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."--book jacket.
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