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An NPR Best Book of the YearA 2020 International Latino Book Award FinalistsAn Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. “You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.”When Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, he suffered temporary, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. Children of the Land distills the trauma of displacement, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen.

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Castillo is a young-ish (early '30s) Mexican-American poet. He immigrated to the U.S. with his parents when he was age five. All came in under the radar. When he finally gets his MFA from the University of Michigan he already has his green card, so he's transitioned from an undocumented Spanish-only speaker to a documented MFA in creative writing with an A+ command of the English language in a relatively short period of time. (What I like to hear more about, though that would be a different story, which he only hints at, is how he was driven to master his new language, and how he did it.)This "memoir" is his story of his journey. He paints pictures of his feelings and the sights around him, including family members, all very much on the surface of things. There are elements of a prose poem. He offers little reflection or analytical thought on his immigrant experience. That's left up to the reader. What struck me the most is how common, how mundane his life (as he describes it) has been. He's got some sexuality issues, mental health issues and alcohol and drug issues, just like many other human beings. Maybe that's the point. Castillo is simply asking us to see him not as an immigrant, but simply as a human brother.I would not have read this book but for its mention as an authentic immigrant story told by an immigrant in a review of the recent book "American Dirt," which has been castigated by some as an inauthentic tale by a white American cultural appropriator. I haven't read that book, and won't, because I very really read fiction (which is just stuff people make up), but memoirs one of my favorite genre.

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