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In my opinion, this should be Educated or Just Mercy level popular and influential." —Tom Rath, NYT #1 Bestselling Author “You know the feeling you get when you read or watch a great story, and then afterwards, at random moments, you feel as if you’re still living in the story? That’s how I’ve felt, ever since reading [this memoir]…I highly recommend!” —Susan Cain, NYT Bestselling Author (7 years on best seller list), TED Speaker (26 million + views) “Incredible debut…It’s been a while since I’ve read a biography with such breadth, from the intensely personal to a most relevant and infuriating political survey. It’s a story about immigrant experience, being brown in New York City in the golden age of hip-hop, and the ‘multiethnic soul’ of Queens. Turn the page and you’re dropped into the drug war, soon shell shocked by a banality of cruelty and the generational terror of its machinery. Also, kidnapping. And most sincerely, family.” —Ricardo Cortes, Author & Illustrator, #1 Amazon Bestseller Go the F*ck to Sleep “eloquent and inspiring…a deeply moving story about deportation, father-daughter relationships, love, and redemption” —Dr. Vivek Murthy, Former Surgeon General of U.S. "clear-eyed and compulsively readable" —Shelf Awareness "timely, bittersweet" —Publishers Weekly “thought-provoking and thoroughly engrossing” —Library Journal, starred review "provocative…candid and moving" —Kirkus "a raw and engaging glimpse into the challenges immigrant families face that are either too traumatic or mundane to land on the news" —BookPage On the audiobook: “read exceptionally well by Shahani…including seamlessly shifting between English and the multiple languages her family speaks…gripping” —AudioFile Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d884d43f5fc8a20cc3f6488/1596434535183-WS5P9T6EG13S3ZF7QM08/IMG-20200802-WA0031.jpg Book Reviews - Add your own review at Goodreads. https://www.aartishahani.com/events daily 0.75 2020-10-08 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/macmillan monthly 0.5 2020-10-08 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/guy-raz-commonwealth-club monthly 0.5 2020-09-15 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/green-apple-books monthly 0.5 2020-09-15 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/commonwealth-club monthly 0.5 2020-09-15 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/google-talk monthly 0.5 2020-09-15 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/instagram-live-with-thejuggernaut monthly 0.5 2020-05-06 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/university-of-california-irvine-cancelled-due-to-covid19 monthly 0.5 2020-05-06 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/manhattan-college-cancelled-due-to-covid19 monthly 0.5 2020-05-06 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/los-angeles-times-book-festival monthly 0.5 2020-05-06 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/sxsw-cancelled-due-to-covid19 monthly 0.5 2020-05-06 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/half-moon-bay monthly 0.5 2020-01-30 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/chicago monthly 0.5 2020-05-06 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/las-vegas monthly 0.5 2020-01-31 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/austin monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/los-angeles monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/washington-dc-new-stop-added monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/texas monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/california-3 monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/california-2 monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/california-1 monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/california monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/washington monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/wisconsin monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/minnesota monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/missouri monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/kansas monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/illinois monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/indiana monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/ohio monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/michigan-1 monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/michigan monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/massachusetts monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/connecticut-1 monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/connecticut monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/brooklyn-new-york monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/events/washington-dc monthly 0.5 2020-01-28 https://www.aartishahani.com/home daily 1.0 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d884d43f5fc8a20cc3f6488/342d9209-64d9-4995-9f91-9b156d3925ec/NU3A5559.jpg Home Award-winning Journalist Check out my oeuvre as NPR’s Technology Correspondent here. 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