Home About Define American a non-profit media and culture organization I founded that fights injustice and anti-immigrant hate through the power of storytelling Outlaw a New York Times Magazine essay I wrote revealing and chronicling my life in America as an undocumented immigrant Documented a documentary feature film I directed on my undocumented experience White People an MTV special I directed on what it means to be young and white in a demographically-changing America Contact JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS Facebook Twitter Instagram Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen Available wherever books are sold on September 18, 2018. Order the book here. This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves in. This book is about lying and being forced to lie to get by; about passing as an American and as a contributing citizen; about families, keeping them together, and having to make new ones when you can’t. This book is about constantly hiding from the government and, in the process, hiding from ourselves. This book is about what it means to not have a home. After 25 years of living illegally in a country that does not consider me one of its own, this book is the closest thing I have to freedom. Dear America Book Tour Dates 9/17 • Philadelphia, PA • 6PM Community College of Philadelphia Moderator: Will Bunch More Information 9/19 • Brooklyn, NY • 7PM Powerhouse Arena Moderator: Joy-Ann Reid Purchase Tickets 9/20 • New York, NY • 7PM Subculture Hosted by: The Strand Purchase Tickets 9/21 • Washington, DC • 7PM Politics & Prose [at The Wharf] Moderator: Jonathan Capehart More Information 9/22 • Coral Gables, FL • 8PM Coral Gables Congregational Church Hosted by: Books & Books Moderator: Jorge Ramos 9/23 • Tulsa, OK • 7PM Lorton Performing Arts Center at University of Tulsa Hosted by: Magic City Books More Information 9/24 • Houston, TX • 7PM Talento Bilingue de Houston Hosted by: Brazos Bookstore Moderator: Tony Diaz Purchase Tickets 9/25 • Los Angeles, CA • 7:30PM Bovard Auditorium at USC Campus Hosted by: Skylight Books Moderator: Viet Thanh Nguyen Purchase Tickets 9/26 • Claremont, CA • 7PM Balch Auditorium at Scripps College Hosted by: Follett Moderator: Leslie Berestein Rojas 9/27 • Portland, OR • 7:30PM Alberta Rose Theater Hosted by: Live Wire Radio Moderator: Luke Burbank Purchase Tickets 9/28 • Seattle, WA • 7:30PM Seattle First Baptist Church Hosted by: University Bookstore Purchase Tickets 9/29 • San Mateo, CA • 7:30PM Aragon High School Theater Hosted by: Kepler’s Books Purchase Tickets 9/30 • Corte Madera, CA • 7PM Book Passage Moderator: Vanessa Hua More Information Praise for Dear America This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American. The pressing question that emerges from these pages isn’t whether Jose deserves to be a citizen but whether we, as a nation, deserve the bravery and generosity of spirit that he offers us with an open heart and mind. – Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow This is a book for our times. Read it, feel it at a gut level, and go beyond the noise of hate politics. Jose Antonio Vargas’s personal story is a firsthand view of what it’s like to be a child raised with anxiety as the norm. This is a book about America. I cried read- ing this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured. – Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins Jose Antonio Vargas’s eloquent and emotional book bears witness to a basic truth: we should not be defined by our legal status, but by who we are. His voice is an important voice that needs to be heard by all Americans, whether they are Americans by birth or by choice. – Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Option B and Lean In Menu Home About Define American a non-profit media and culture organization I founded that fights injustice and anti-immigrant hate through the power of storytelling Outlaw a New York Times Magazine essay I wrote revealing and chronicling my life in America as an undocumented immigrant Documented a documentary feature film I directed on my undocumented experience White People an MTV special I directed on what it means to be young and white in a demographically-changing America Contact Facebook Twitter Instagram Join my mailing list