My (underground) American dream : my true story as an undocumented immigrant who became a Wall Street executive /
"JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most common, preconceived answers to those questions are sometimes far too simple-and often just plain wrong. On the surface, Arce's story reads like a how-to manual for achieving the American dream: growing up in an apartment on the outskirts of San...
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New York :
Center Street, Hachette Book Group,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The Attack
- Part I. "Undocumented"
- Home Alone
- The Last Drop
- Strangers
- Strangers No More
- You're an Illegal Now
- Decisions, Decisions
- The Accident
- The Wall
- Part 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
- Part 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.