NPR's Best Books of 2020BookPage 's Best Books of 2020Real Simple 's Best Books of 2020Boston.com readers voted one of Best Books of 2020"Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story." --Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the RoadThe Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor of NPR's Latino USA tells the story of immigration in America through her family's 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 Hinojosa's honest, passionate voice" ( BookPage ).Maria Hinojosa is an award-winning journalist who, for nearly thirty years, has reported on stories and communities in America that often go ignored by the mainstream media--from 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 Álvarez has called her "one of the most important, respected, and beloved cult
