{"product_id":"citizenship-notes-on-an-american-myth-hardcover","title":"Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaisy Hernández\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"How did 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free' turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non-citizens alike. Brilliant!\"--Sandra Cisneros \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The most comprehensive book on citizenship\/immigration I've ever read. A must-read!\"--Javier Zamora \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The book I have always wanted to read.\"--Jose Antonio Vargas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Personal, profound, engaging, and comprehensive . . . this is an essential book for these contentious times.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books, Autostraddle, Publishers Lunch\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this one-of-a-kind book, Daisy Hernández fiercely interrogates one of the most complicated subjects of contemporary life and politics: citizenship. Braiding memoir, history, and cultural criticism, she exposes the truths and lies of how we define ourselves as a country and a people. Turning to her own family's stories--her mother arrived from Colombia, while her father was a political refugee from Castro's Cuba--Hernández shows how the very idea of citizenship is a myth, one of the stories we tell ourselves about the American soul and psyche. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReframing our understanding of what it means to be an American, \u003ci\u003eCitizenship\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent and necessary account of the laws, customs, and language we use to include and exclude, especially those who come from Latin America. With her scholar's mind and memoirist's gift for narrative, Hernández weaves a story both personal and national, while reckoning with our country's ongoing debate about who belongs and providing fresh ways of thinking about citizenship. At once bracing, fearless, and tender, \u003ci\u003eCitizenship \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful portrait of one family's experiences in the borderlands of citizenship and an honest illumination of the country in which we live.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaisy Hernández\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Kissing Bug, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award and the inaugural title for the National Book Foundation's Science + Literature Program. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eA Cup of Water Under My Bed, \u003c\/i\u003e won Lambda Literary's Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and was a Publishing Triangle Award finalist. She co-edited the classic feminist anthology \u003ci\u003eColonize This!\u003c\/i\u003e and is an associate professor of creative writing at Northwestern University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.4 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987461800237,"sku":"9780593730171","price":28.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/S0fftqQ7my9780593730171.webp?v=1776178846","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/citizenship-notes-on-an-american-myth-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}