Just Like Us can be ordered from The Tattered Cover, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or from Quaker Books.
“Over the course of several years, Thorpe shadowed a group of four friends from immigrant families in Denver…. Thorpe is meticulously observant.”
(The New Yorker)
“When she embarked on her galvanizing book, Helen Thorpe had a policy wonk’s interest in immigration, leavened with her own ‘odd sense of dual identity’ as someone who herself arrived in the United States as a child. As her eyes are slowly opened to the catch-22 aspects of American immigration law, ours are, too…. Thorpe intelligently drills away at the harsh reality—what should we do, deport half a family? Thorpe puts a human face on a frequently obtuse conversation, and takes us far beyond the political rhetoric.”
(O Magazine)