carrissac 's review for:

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

5.0

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4.5 stars. This was a heartfelt and eye opening book, a unique look into one account of an undocumented immigrant. Vargas writes that one of his friends called his level of vulnerability a distant intimacy, and this felt like the truest part of his memoir. Although he writes about intimate parts of his life, his journalist writing style keeps us at a distance, which is right where he wants us. I better understand what it means to live in America in all of her complexities because of this book.