Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card

Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card

In development as a television series from Reese Witherspoonâ€™s Hello Sunshine production company and ABC Studios!

The hilarious, poignant, and true story of one teen's experience growing up in America as an undocumented immigrant from the Middle East, perfect for fans of Mindy Kaling and Trevor Noah's books.

â€œVery funny but never flippant, Saedi mixes â€˜90s pop culture references, adolescent angst and Iranian history into an intimate, informative narrative that thoroughly defies current divisive view on immigration.â€â€”The New York Times

At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number.

Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being a teenager. She desperately wanted a green card, along with clear skin, her own car, and a boyfriend.

Americanized follows Sara's progress toward getting her green card, but that's only a portion of her experiences as an Iranian-"American" teenager. From discovering that her parents secretly divorced to facilitate her mother's green card application to learning how to tame her unibrow, Sara pivots gracefully from the terrifying prospect that she might be kicked out of the country at any time to the almost-as-terrifying possibility that she might be the only one of her friends without a date to the prom. This moving, often hilarious story is for anyone who has ever shared either fear.

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â€œA must-read, vitally important memoir. . . . Poignant and often LOL funny,Â AmericanizedÂ is utterly of the moment.â€â€”Bustle
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â€œReadÂ Saediâ€™s memoir to push out the poison.â€â€”Teen Vogue
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â€œA funny, poignant must read for the times we are living in today.â€â€”Pop Sugar
Country USA
Brand Ember
Manufacturer Ember
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 53778019
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2019-03-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781524717827

Country	USA
Brand	Ember
Manufacturer	Ember
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	53778019
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2019-03-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781524717827

Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card

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