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My (underground) American dream my true story as an undocumented immigrant who became a Wall Street executive

"For an undocumented immigrant, what is the true cost of the American dream? Julissa Arce shares her story in a riveting memoir. When she was 11 years old Julissa Arce left Mexico and came to the United States on a tourist visa to be reunited with her parents, who dreamed the journey would secu...

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Main Authors: Arce, Julissa (Author), Dagostino, Mark (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Center Street, Hachette Book Group, 2016.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Arce, Julissa.
Mexican Americans > Biography.
Immigrants > United States > Biography.
Illegal immigration > United States > Biography.
Secrecy > United States.
Women executives > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Mexican American women > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) > Biography.
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The attack
  • pt. I. "Undocumented"
  • Home alone
  • The last drop
  • Strangers
  • Strangers no more
  • You're an illegal now
  • Decisions, decisions
  • The accident
  • The wall
  • pt. II. The road to the street
  • Opportunity
  • Normal-ish
  • Walking papers
  • Race to the offer
  • The offer
  • Big time
  • Setting sail
  • Seasons of change
  • Concrete jungle
  • The call
  • pt. III. Redeemed
  • The proposal
  • Going home
  • Happy
  • When it rains, it pours
  • The end
  • The odyssey
  • Out of the darkness
  • Connecting the dots
  • Redeemed
  • Postscript.

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