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What does an undocumented immigrant look like? The type of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What's the true price she must pay to remain in america? Julissa Arce has learned firsthand that the most frequent, preconceived answers to those questions are occasionally much too simple - and frequently just plain wrong. On the surface, Arce's story sounds like a how-to manual for attaining the American wish: growing up in an apartment on the outskirts of San Antonio, she functioned tirelessly, achieved academic excellence, and got a sought after job on Wall Street, complete with a six-figure salary. The level of professional and financial success that she achieved was the very classification of the North american dream. But in this brave new memoir, Arce digs deep to expose the physical, financial, and emotional costs of the stunning top secret that she, like many other high-achieving, successful individuals in america, had been compelled to keep not only from her bosses, but even from her closest friends. From the time she was brought to this country by her hardworking parents as a child, Arce - the scholarship winner, the honors college graduate, the young woman who climbed the ladder to become vice chief executive at Goldman Sachs - got secretly resided as an undocumented immigrant. On this surprising, at times heart-wrenching, but always inspirational personal account of have difficulty, grief, and ultimate redemption, Arce can take listeners deep into the little-understood world of a era of undocumented immigrants in america today - people who live nearby, remain in your classrooms, work in the same office, and may perfectly be your employer. By checking about the storyplot of her successes, her heartbreaks, and her long-fought quest to emerge from the shadows and be an American resident, Arce shows us the true cost of attaining the American wish - from the perspective of a woman who got to scale unseen and unimaginable walls to get there.
