Conditional citizens : on belonging in America / Laila Lalami.

"The acclaimed, award-winning novelist--author of The Moor's Account and The Other Americans--now gives us a bracingly personal work of nonfiction that is concerned with the experiences of "conditional citizens." What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pu...

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Main Author: Lalami, Laila, 1968- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:191 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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