The author of the book. Davis largely absents himself from the narrative, with one exception. Davis breaks the story about Oscar, Cristian, Lorenzo, and Luis for Wired for the first time in 2005. As a result, readers from all over the country send money to chip in for the students’ college education, ultimately raising over $120,000. To Davis, it is also important to tell both sides of the students’ story: the successes and the struggles. He makes a point of noting how the movie version of their story ends in triumph, while real life is much more complicated than that. For him, the book is a way of showing how much potential kids can have—even undocumented kids from a poor neighborhood—but how as a result of the U.S.’s immigration policies, that potential is currently being thrown away.
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“If the really long list of immigrant inventors who have made this country and the world a much better place is to stop here and now, we will also likely become the newest declining nation,” one reader commented.
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Joshua Davis Quotes in Spare Parts
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“If the really long list of immigrant inventors who have made this country and the world a much better place is to stop here and now, we will also likely become the newest declining nation,” one reader commented.
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