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Illegal, a true story of love, revolution and crossing borders, John Dennehy

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Illegal, a true story of love, revolution and crossing borders, John Dennehy

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Illegal

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

John Dennehy

Sub title

a true story of love, revolution and crossing borders

Summary

Illegal tells the true story of love and deception, revolutions and deportations as it chronicles the trials of John Dennehy. Naïve New Yorker, Dennehy refuses to be part of the feverish nationalism of post 9/11 America. His search for hope takes him to Ecuador, where he falls in love with firebrand Lucia, who perfects his broken Spanish while they find solidarity in the brewing social upheaval. Amid the unrest, Dennehy is, arrested and deported, to the United States, but he has found something worth fighting for. A raw account of a young American abroad grasping for meaning, this pulsating story of violent protests, illegal border crossings and loss of innocence raises questions about the futility of borders and the irresistible power of nationalism

Target audience

adult

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