Children of the Land

Children of the Land | Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

so-so

This was the first of two “close my eyes and pull from my shelves” #bookspin choices this month. I switched to the audio since it was available from my library.

This is a memoir about trying to get US citizenship, about immigration and deportation. The author‘s family has experienced it all.

The author is a poet, and I didn‘t love his writing style. He switched timelines in a way that was hard to follow for me. But it‘s an important POV.

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 1d

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Megabooks

Children of the Land | Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

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Sometimes more poetic prose works for me and other times it doesn‘t. I appreciated what he was going for, a memoir in five acts about his family‘s undocumented status and how that affected him and them from immigration to adulthood. I‘m trying to seek out more of these own voices books on immigration, but I think a more traditional memoir structure would‘ve worked better for me. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #audiobook #hoopla

Megabooks @Cinfhen sorry I couldn‘t end up giving this higher marks! 5y

Cinfhen Yeah, I told you I started the audio but it wasn‘t really holding my attention : I guess we were on the same page 5y

Megabooks @Cinfhen yeah I remembered you telling me that, and I just wanted to confirm your suspicions that this is just okay. ❤️😘 5y

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Cinfhen Maybe I‘ll try to return my audio to Audible 🤞🏼🤞🏼Thanks, Meg. 😘 5y

Megabooks @Cinfhen if you‘re out of self service returns, they are very nice on the phone. I‘ve never had problems returning that way. They‘ve really stepped up their customer service! (edited) 5y

Cinfhen I was able to self return but I‘m hoping I‘ll one day get 3 credits back like you 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 5y

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JackieGreco

Children of the Land | Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

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This was an incredible memoir about Castro‘s life as an immigrant from Mexico. His story is very heavy and difficult and upsetting to read at times.

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mdemanatee

Children of the Land | Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Heads up: I was just able to nab this on Libro.fm for under $10. Was it a fluke? I don‘t know. But in case it wasn‘t!

Nickinpa You got a bargain. It‘s now more than $30 5y

mdemanatee @Nickinpa Yeah; I‘m leaning toward fluke. But hey I snatched it up. 5y

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Erynecki

Children of the Land | Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

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I once watched a docfilm which had a line about how being a refugee is to lose one‘s whole identity. I thought a lot about that line while reading this book. This incredibly raw and poetic memoir about the author‘s crossing the US Mexico border as a child, his father‘s eventual deportation, the family dynamics of the mother and children left behind, of the trauma of displacement, and the search for identity, is told with beautiful honesty.

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JSW

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Powerful book. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo has ripped his heart out and written the pages with his pain, hope, loss, love, disorientation, displacement, struggle, and movement. This is a real memoir of immigration and it's worth your time.

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JeniReadABook

Children of the Land | Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

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LatrelWhite

Children of the Land | Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Started last night... yeah during the Superbowl😜

LatrelWhite Great story of resistance. 6y

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Kenny

Children of the Land | Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Everyone is reading this right now, right? That‘s what we decided?

So you know how as book people we live our whole lives for “it,” that feeling—that “this is the book I‘ve needed, this is so perfect and so good” feeling? Children of the Land is the first It Book of 2020.

Hooked_on_books For me, the first it book of 2020 was Ada Calhoun‘s