This book broke my heart in all the necessary ways. It is beautifully written, especially considering the devastation of the subject matter, and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in the immigration crisis at the southern border of the United States.

Harrowing, heartbreaking, and compulsively readable. This memoir is co-written by Rosy, a Guatemalan mother who flees gang violence and death threats with her 2 young sons along the Migrant Pipeline to the US and her 3 spirit-breaking months in dentention center after she is forcibly separated from her chiildren. One amazing facet of her story is that the traumatic experience strengthens her connection with Spirit and God, and she begins ernestly praying and seeking inner solutions for the outer events she cannot control. The most vivid depictions were the travel from Guatemala to the US and the time spent with other women who had been separated from their young children in the detention center.

Once she is freed by a wonderful group of activists and taken under their wing, they move her to NYC, where her children have been lovingly cared for in a foster home. The story moves quickly then. A woman named Julie, head of the organization that has been instrumental in posting bond for many women in detention and then leading them to new lives, writes her own memoir section of the book. She is a former social worker and as head of a large organization, much of her writing is statistics. It did not seem as engaging and heart-rendering as the first-person account by Rosy.

Highly recommended as a first-person account of traveling to migrate to the US from Central America, being separated by family and thrown into detention prisons by ICE, not sugarcoated. Raw brutal truth.