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Here We Are

Here We Are

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12 OCT 2020

Aarti Shahani

Why is this interesting? - The Monday Media Diet with NPR's Aarti Shahani

A memoir by Aarti Shahani about her family coming to America, offering a critique of the impossibly stacked deck against poor immigrants.

Here We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family's American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who fought to get it back, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani. The Shahanis came to Queens—from India, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. This is the story of how they did, and didn't; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together...

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