This Year’s Featured Work

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

In this remarkable book— part memoir, part journalism, part creative non-fiction—Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, herself undocumented, opens our eyes to what is right in front of us, but which we have been unable to see clearly up until now. She brings us into the lives of her family and other undocumented people in the United States, focusing not on a model-minority, soft-focus Dreamer narrative, but on the complex, real lives of undocumented people, who entrusted her with their stories, perhaps in part because of her own honesty and vulnerability. The student reviewers for the On the Same Page program were blown away by this book, and you will be, too.

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio has written about immigration, music, beauty, and mental illness for the New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Glamour, Elle, Vogue, n+1, and The New Inquiry, among others. She lives in New Haven with her partner and their dog.

20 Aug

Keynote Lecture by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

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On the Same Page

"I loved this book so so much and think everyone would benefit from reading it. It gives voice to people who are systemically oppressed."

"It really is a book that changes the way you think about the country. It opens the door to explore labor, family, faith, identity, and meaning in really complex ways."

"'The Undocumented Americans' is ultimately a story about family and community. It is a story that has universal appeal to anyone who has strived to give their loved ones a better life."

This book "adds a crucial narrative to the literature on undocumented immigrants. "