Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in the us,” tackles one of the defining problems of our time in this explosive and deeply personal contact to arms.

“This isn’t a book about the politics of immigration. This book–at it’s core–is not about immigration whatsoever. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored emotional state that undocumented immigrants like myself discover ourselves in. This book is about lying and having to lay to manage; about passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about households, keeping them collectively, and having to make fresh types when you can’t. This book is about constantly hiding from the government and, along the way, hiding from ourselves. This book is about what it means to not possess a home.

After 25 years of living illegally in a country that will not consider me one of its, this book may be the closest thing I must freedom.”

-Jose Antonio Vargas, from Dear America