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"The acclaimed, award-winning novelist--author of The Moor's Account and The Other Americans--now gives us a bracingly personal work of nonfiction that is concerned with the experiences of "conditional citizens." What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2021Vintage · 208 pages · 9780525436041
- Other · English · 2020Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 208 pages · 9781524747169
- Other · English · 2020Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 208 pages · 9781524747176
CitizenshipNaturalizationDiscriminationUnited states, politics and governmentNew York Times reviewedEmigration and immigrationBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / WomenPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship
