Item Condition: Used; Very Good
His lllegal Selfis the story ofChe - raised
in isolated privilege by his New York
grandmother, he is the precocious son of
radical student activists at Harvard in the
late sixties. Yearning for his famous outlaw
parents, denied all access to television and
the news, he takes hope from his long-
haired, teenage neighbour who predicts:
They will come for you, man. They l break
you outof here.
Soon Che too is an outlaw: fleeing down
subways, abandoning seedy motels at night.
he is pitched into a journey that leads him
to a hippy commune in the jungle of
tropical Queensland. Here he slowly.
bravely, confronts his life, learning that
nothing is what it seems. Who is his real
mother? Was that his real father? Ifall he
suspects is true, what should he do?
Never sentimental, His lIlegal Selfis an
achingly beautiful story of the love between
a young woman and a little boy. It may
make you cry more than once before it
lifts your spirit in the most lovely, artful,
unexpected way.