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Children of the land : a memoir
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Publication Information
New York : Harper Perennial, [2020]
Physical Description
362 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family's encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, simple 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 sh ecould be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor.
Contents
- [Movement as a Trix cereal commercial]
- DACA
- Interview on allegiance
- Sentence served
- Glass
- Asylum.