Many Faces Book Discussion: Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Join us this fall in reading; Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Immigrant by Jose` Vargas. Then on Wednesday, Nov. 4th from 6 - 7:30 pm we will gather together and go through a facilitated book talk about Mr. Vargas' novel and the struggles he went through when he came to the United States.
“This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at its core––is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves in. This book is about lying and being forced to lie to get by; about passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about families, keeping them together, and having to make new ones when you can’t. This book is about constantly hiding from the government and, in the process, hiding from ourselves. This book is about what it means to not have a home."