first edition Hard Cover
2020 · New York
by Castillo, Marcello Hernandez
New York: Harper, 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6x1x9. First edition. Lacks jacket. 2020 Hard Cover. When Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, he suffered temporary, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. (Inventory #: 2312925)