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baileydouglass 's review for:
America, Let Me in: A Choose Your Immigration Story
by Felipe Torres Medina
dark
funny
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4 stars- I wasn't quite sure what to expect of this book from the description--I think I thought it would be more of a memoir with context on how our immigration system in the US works. That's not what it is though--it's a choose your own adventure book, like the kids series, but with characters going through the US immigration process.
The book is clever and interesting, and the details and stories that Medina creates show the maddening bureaucracy and arbitrary rules that qualified immigrants have to navigate to get through to live in the US. I do a lot of work with immigration processes with my job and I still learned quite a bit from the book. Medina also highlights Melania Trump's immigration experience and makes a lot of comments about the Trump administration and Elon Musk that I thought would be funny if they weren't so troubling.
Overall I enjoyed the book, it's about an important topic in a lighthearted way and I'm still ready for that memoir when Medina wants to write it.
Caveats:
This is not a great book to read on ebook because of the flipping around. I'd recommend buying a physical copy.
Medina is very clear that he does not include information about the experience for people who are not privileged with an obvious legal route to immigrate, because this is a comedy book and that experience isn't at all funny.
Thanks to Abrams and Net Galley for my advance review copy.
The book is clever and interesting, and the details and stories that Medina creates show the maddening bureaucracy and arbitrary rules that qualified immigrants have to navigate to get through to live in the US. I do a lot of work with immigration processes with my job and I still learned quite a bit from the book. Medina also highlights Melania Trump's immigration experience and makes a lot of comments about the Trump administration and Elon Musk that I thought would be funny if they weren't so troubling.
Overall I enjoyed the book, it's about an important topic in a lighthearted way and I'm still ready for that memoir when Medina wants to write it.
Caveats:
This is not a great book to read on ebook because of the flipping around. I'd recommend buying a physical copy.
Medina is very clear that he does not include information about the experience for people who are not privileged with an obvious legal route to immigrate, because this is a comedy book and that experience isn't at all funny.
Thanks to Abrams and Net Galley for my advance review copy.