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Children of the Land : A Memoir by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Children of the Land : A Memoir about?
An Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Book of 2020This 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 syst
Who reads Children of the Land : A Memoir?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
- Publisher
- Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062825599
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, American Studies
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (340 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14