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NPRs Best Books of 2020BookPages Best Books of 2020Real Simples Best Books of 2020Boston.com readers voted one of Best Books of 2020Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story. Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the RoadThe Emmy Awardwinning journalist and anchor of NPRs Latino USA tells the story of immigration in America through her familys experiences and decades of reporting, painting an unflinching portrait of a country in crisis in this memoir that is quite simply beautiful, written in Maria Hinojosas honest, passionate voice (BookPage).Maria Hinojosa is an awardwinning journalist who, for nearly thirty years, has reported on stories and communities in America that often go ignored by the mainstream mediafrom tales of hope in the South Bronx to the unseen victims of the War on Terror and the first detention camps in the US. Bestselling author Julia lvarez has called her one of the most important, respected, and beloved cultural leaders in the Latinx community.In Once I Was You, Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago. She offers a personal and illuminating account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also sanctioned willful negligence and profiteering at the expense of our countrys most vulnerable populationscharging us with the broken system we have today.An urgent call to fellow Americans to open their eyes to the immigration crisis and understand that it affects us all, this honest and heartrending memoir paints a vivid portrait of how we got here and what it means to be a survivor, a feminist, a citizen, and a journalist who owns her voice while striving for the truth.Also available in Spanish as Una vez fui t.
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