What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family
must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is
the true price she must pay to remain in the United States? 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 Antonio, she worked tirelessly, achieved academic
excellence, and landed a coveted job on Wall Street, complete with
a six-figure salary. The level of professional and financial
success that she achieved was the very definition of the American
dream. But in this brave new memoir, Arce digs deep to reveal the
physical, financial, and emotional costs of the stunning secret
that she, like many other high-achieving, successful individuals in
the United States, had been forced to keep not only from her
bosses, but even from her closest friends. From the time she was
brought to this country by her hardworking parents as a child,
Arce-the scholarship winner, the honors college graduate, the young
woman who climbed the ladder to become a vice president at Goldman
Sachs-had secretly lived as an undocumented immigrant. In this
surprising, at times heart-wrenching, but always inspirational
personal story of struggle, grief, and ultimate redemption, Arce
takes readers deep into the little-understood world of a generation
of undocumented immigrants in the United States today- people who
live next door, sit in your classrooms, work in the same office,
and may very well be your boss. By opening up about the story of
her successes, her heartbreaks, and her long-fought journey to
emerge from the shadows and become an American citizen, Arce shows
us the true cost of achieving the American dream-from the
perspective of a woman who had to scale unseen and unimaginable
walls to get there.
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