A review by tamtasticbooks
Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change by Cristina Jiménez

emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

3.75

If you are interested in the recent/current history of DACA and how the plight of the undocumented American immigrant is going, this is a great book to pick up! Jimenez details her time from childhood to adulthood, through dreaming of going to a college but not thinking she will be allowed, to finding love, to working at civil rights organizations and clubs that helped pave the way and fight for DACA. It is both inspiring and infuriating, seeing how much work undocumented immigrants put into the United States, for such little payout, and for so much horror. Jimenez really details it all and puts it into perspective, how both parties have helped and hurt the cause.
 
The whole memoir is valuable, but I think I enjoyed the first half more than the second. The first half read as more of a memoir to me, and the second half of the book becomes a little more "this happened, and then this happened, and then this happened" which made me enthusiasm wane a little. Yet, it was still very interesting!

Thanks to St Martin's Press and Netgalley for the e-ARC!