Making My Way in America: An Autobiography:

If I had to reduce it to one sentence, I would say this book is about living the American Dream. It is about growing up without electricity, running water, or indoor plumbing. It is about being poor but not realizing that you are because everyone around you is in the same situation. It is about one of the millions of families that come to America legally every year and asks for nothing but an opportunity—an opportunity to get an education, an opportunity to work, an opportunity to serve the...