We experience their failures and triumphs, their pain and their joy. In the small sense we follow a set of Salvadorian twins as they leave home and move to California. This book is a fascinating look at the current immigration situation in Central America. immigration policy, and an unforgettable testament to the migrant experience. With intimate access and breathtaking range, Markham offers a coming of age tale that is also a nuanced portrait of Central America’s child exodus, an investigation of U.S. Soon these unaccompanied minors are navigating a new school in a new language, working to pay down their mounting coyote debt, and facing their day in immigration court, while also encountering the triumphs and pitfalls of life as American teenagers-girls, grades, Facebook-with only each other for support. In this urgent chronicle of contemporary immigration, journalist Lauren Markham follows the seventeen-year-old Flores twins as they make their harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, into the hands of immigration authorities, and from there to their estranged older brother’s custody in Oakland, CA. If you’re like me and knew nothing about this book before now, here is a little intro to the story However, I decided that I would be focusing on reading a little more about immigration this month, and decided why not dive into this book. I heard about this book from Subway Book Review on Instagram and I added it to my TBR (to be read) list thinking I would get to it eventually.
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