Dimensions
157 x 242 x 23mm
In a green town in the middle of America, a bright 18-year-old Hispanic student named Isaias Ramos sets out on the journey to college. He aces a national calculus exam, studies the viola for fun, and appears on local TV as captain of the quiz bowl team. The counselors at school want Isaias to apply to Harvard. But he's not so sure. He's thinking about going to work painting houses with his parents, unauthorized immigrants from Mexico.
Journalist Daniel Connolly follows Isaias and his friends for more than three years as they grapple with competing obligations to family, work and school, as they fall in love and break up, and as they seek their purpose in life.
One in four young people in America is a child of immigrants and their life decisions will affect our society and economy for decades. In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and A Hope in the Unseen, this deeply human narrative offers a powerful antidote to the heated political rhetoric about recent immigrants and their children.
