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I listened to the audiobook, which is read by the author, and really appreciated hearing his story in his voice. If at times he wasn't the best narrator or even the best writer of narrative, at other moments revelations were so much more powerful because he was making them. Some of the later parts felt repetitive, but I could understand that he was trying to explain his perspective (which is a bit complicated - he calls himself the most privileged undocumented American) and his struggles to stay
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Wow, this changed my thinking on immigration and what it means to be homeless. Homeless,as in having no country to call home. Very heartbreaking. The way we treat immigrants,we should be ashamed. Horrible.
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