km99 's review for:

4.0

a really lucid memoir, although i hesitate to call it memoir b/c for me, the prose and the content read like a long op-ed. i think jose's personal relationships feel very subdued in this memoir, esp by the second half, and there seems to be a sort of defensiveness of his personal career that pervades. can't really blame him but would not reread as a memoir, as it feels incomplete in that regard; more insightful as a personal history on being undocumented in america