A personal and political exploration of American citizenship by Laila Lalami, focusing on the challenges faced by conditional citizens.
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A personal and political exploration of American citizenship by Laila Lalami, focusing on the challenges faced by conditional citizens.
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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 tha...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content depicted.
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central focus on political and social issues of citizenship and race.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Discusses systemic suffering and discrimination based on race and origin.
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