This was a heartfelt and introspective look at the predicament of journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. Brought to the U.S. as a 12 year old by his grandparents, he was supplied with a fake green card that was transparently fraudulent the first time he tried to use it to get a driver's permit in California. From that moment on he tried to hide the fact that he was in the country illegally, but slowly he began to confide in friends who were able to help him go to college and eventually begin a career as a journalist. But the anxiety of constantly lying eventually led him to come out in the open about his undocumented status, and his life took a different turn as a speaker, activist, and documentary filmmaker. This book is his tale, and while he doesn't take a political stance, he makes the case that he is every bit as deserving of being a citizen as those who were born here. Just a few months too old to qualify for the DACA program, his life in this country is still precarious.
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