Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares

"Aarti Namdev Shahani, who until recently reported on Silicon Valley for NPR, has written a riveting memoir of her personal success, set against the backdrop of her close-knit family’s contorted, painful path to citizenship. After her father’s arrest and imprisonment, the family discovered that American justice is neither just nor colorblind. Even as Shahani watches her father get crushed beneath the system, she grows and evolves as a daughter. If you’re moved by frequent calls to deport criminal or undocumented immigrants and refugees, please read Here We Are. For to “migrate to America … is the boldest act of one’s life.”"