Catalina Ituralde seems to have it all: admitted to Harvard, the prodigy-child who survived near-death in Latin America and was raised by her undocumented grandparents in Queens. Yet beneath the triumph lies a quiet urgency. She’s brilliant, observant — and deeply aware that her undocumented status casts a long shadow over what’s ahead.

In her senior year, Catalina drifts between literary journals, secret societies, elite internships and posh parties — always watching, always calculating. She becomes drawn to a fellow student studying anthropology, curious about the world she was born into but never knew. Meanwhile her life back in Queens begins to fray: the rent, the debts, the family she carries in her mind.

As graduation looms, Catalina must ask herself: Can she save her family? Can she save herself? And what does it mean to be the “miracle child” when your world demands you vanish? Smart, edgy, and emotionally acute, Catalina explores identity, invisibility, ambition and belonging in a world that wasn’t built for people like her.