Author Aims for Punk Rock Memoir With The Undocumented Americans
Author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio joins us to discuss her new memoir, \u201cThe Undocumented Americans.\u201d Villavicencio arrived in America when she was five and is one of the first undocumented students to graduate from Harvard. After the election of President Trump in 2016, she began writing about her own experience as well as those of other undocumented immigrants in New York, Miami, Cleveland, Michigan and Connecticut through a series of reported essays. Now a doctoral student at Yale, Villavicencio\u2019s work insists on breaking conventional and sanitized narratives of immigrants in her book, which she calls a punk rock memoir.