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Author Hernandez Castillo, Marcelo, 1988- author. Title Children of the land / Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Publisher New York, New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] ©2020 Copies
ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS Boulder Junction adult nonfiction 921 CAS AVAILABLE Eagle River adult nonfiction 921 CAS AVAILABLE Mercer biographies B CAS Biography AVAILABLE Superior adult nonfiction 921 H43h Hernandez Castillo, Marcelo AVAILABLE Edition First edition. Descript 362 pages ; 24 cm Note Nonfiction. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-362). 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, 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." Subject Hernandez Castillo, Marcelo, 1988- Authors, American -- Biography. Noncitizens -- Biography. Deportation -- Biography. Family secrets -- Biography. United States -- Biography. Genre Autobiographies. ISBN/ISSN 0062825593 (hardcover) 9780062825599 (hardcover)
