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The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border

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The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border"Offers hope in the face of desperate odds" ELLE Magazine, ELLE's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020 " D]isturbing and unforgettable memoir This wrenching story brings to vivid life the plight of the many families separated at the U. S. Mexico border." Publisher's Weekly, STARRED REVIEW " The] haunting and eloquent narrative of a Guatemalan woman's desperate search for a better life. Kirkus, STARRED Review PEOPLE Magazine Best Books of Summer 2020

"Offers hope in the face of desperate odds" - ELLE Magazine, ELLE's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020

" D]isturbing and unforgettable memoir...This wrenching story brings to vivid life the plight of the many families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border." - Publisher's Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

" The] haunting and eloquent...narrative of a Guatemalan woman's desperate search for a better life. -Kirkus, STARRED Review

PEOPLE Magazine Best Books of Summer 2020

TIME Magazine Best Books of Summer 2020

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Compelling and urgently important, The Book of Rosy is the unforgettable story of one brave mother and her fight to save her family.

When Rosayra "Rosy" Pablo Cruz made the agonizing decision to seek asylum in the United States with two of her children, she knew the journey would be arduous, dangerous, and quite possibly deadly. But she had no choice: violence--from gangs, from crime, from spiraling chaos--was making daily life hell. Rosy knew her family's one chance at survival was to flee Guatemala and go north.

After a brutal journey that left them dehydrated, exhausted, and nearly starved, Rosy and her two little boys arrived at the Arizona border. Almost immediately they were seized and forcibly separated by government officials under the Department of Homeland Security's new "zero tolerance" policy. To her horror Rosy discovered that her flight to safety had only just begun.

In The Book of Rosy, with an unprecedented level of sharp detail and soulful intimacy, Rosy tells her story, aided by Julie Schwietert Collazo, founder of Immigrant Families Together, the grassroots organization that reunites mothers and children. She reveals the cruelty of the detention facilities, the excruciating pain of feeling her children ripped from her arms, the abiding faith that staved off despair--and the enduring friendship with Julie, which helped her navigate the darkness and the bottomless Orwellian bureaucracy.

A gripping account of the human cost of inhumane policies, The Book of Rosy is also a paean to the unbreakable will of people united by true love, a sense of justice, and hope for a better future.

--Kirkus (STARRED Review)

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 06/02/2020
ISBN: 9780062941923
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.75w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2020 pg. 95
Publishers Weekly 03/23/2020
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