When Catalina Ituralde is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented. She infiltrates the school's elite subcultures - internships and literary journals, posh parties and secret societies. There Catalina finds herself drawn to a fellow student, a budding anthropologist eager to teach her about the Latin American world she was born into but never knew, even as her life back in Queens begins to unravel. Author of "The Undocumented Americans." Print run 100,000.
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