” Anyone making every effort to comprehend and improve this country should read her story.”– Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road The Emmy Award– winning journalist and anchor of NPR’s Latino U.S.A. tells the story of migration in America through her household’s experiences and years of reporting, painting an unflinching portrait of a country in crisis in this memoir that is “rather merely gorgeous, written in Maria Hinojosa’s sincere, enthusiastic voice” (BookPage). Maria Hinojosa is an award-winning reporter who, for nearly thirty years, has reported on stories and neighborhoods in America that typically go neglected by the mainstream media– from tales of hope in the South Bronx to the unseen victims of the War on Terror and the very first detention camps in the US. Bestselling author Julia Álvarez has called her “among the most essential, reputable, and beloved cultural leaders in the Latinx neighborhood.” In Once I Was You, Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago. She uses an individual and illuminating account of how the rhetoric around migration has not just long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, however also sanctioned willful neglect and profiteering at the expense of our nation’s most vulnerable populations– charging us with the damaged system we have today. An immediate call to fellow Americans to open their eyes to the immigration crisis and understand that it impacts all of us, this truthful and heartrending memoir paints a vibrant picture of how we got here and what it means to be a survivor, a feminist, a person, and a reporter who owns her voice while striving for the fact. Likewise available in Spanish as Una vez fui tú.
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