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Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares: A Memoir
By Aarti Namdev Shahani
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By Aarti Namdev Shahani
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Publisher Macmillan Imprint Celadon Books (Adult) ISBN9781250204752
Awards and Honors <i>LJ</i> Best Books - 2019 <br> NPR’s Book Concierge - 2019Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares: A Memoir
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Who really belongs in America? That question has chased every newcomer and many native-born since the founding of the republic. In this heart-wrenching, vulnerable, and witty memoir, journalist Aarti Shahani digs deep inside herself and her family for an answer—one that she finds in an unlikely place.
The Shahanis came to Queens—from India, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few years, and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This memoir is the story of how they did, and didn't. Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares follows the lives of Aarti, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan's most elite prep schools, and her dad, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country, even within a single family, and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isn’t a matter of good or evil; it's complicated.
The Shahanis came to Queens—from India, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few years, and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This memoir is the story of how they did, and didn't. Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares follows the lives of Aarti, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan's most elite prep schools, and her dad, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country, even within a single family, and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isn’t a matter of good or evil; it's complicated.
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