The Undocumented Americans

 The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, 208 pages (read by the author)

This book was written after the presidential election in 2016, when Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (a DACA recipient) was panicking about the state of the country. She decided to go around the country collecting the real stories of undocumented Americans, as well as writing about her own experiences with being undocumented for the first time under her own name. What follows is a very interesting book that (by her own admission) is not impersonal enough to call journalism and too thoroughly researched to call anything else. She interviews people who's health was severely impacted by helping with the clean-up after 9/11, undocumented communities in Flint, and families split up by deportation (among many others).

This book was interesting, although I'm afraid my experience with it was a little worse as a non-audiobook listener who tried to take it in audibly. I'm sure if you struggle with audiobooks less than me it would be a good experience though, as Cornejo Villavicencio reading her own words definitely helps convey the emotional weight she wrote them with.