The book of Rosy : a mother's story of separation at the border

Author

Rosayra Pablo Cruz

Call Number

• 305.90691 P112 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]

Physical Description

vi, 248 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"From a mother whose children were taken from her at the U.S. border by the American government in 2018 and another mother who helped reunite the family, a crucial, searing story about the immigration odyssey, family separation and reunification, and the power of individuals to band together to overcome even the most cruel and unjust circumstances"--

When Pablo Cruz made the decision to seek asylum in the United States with her children, she had no choice: violence from gangs, from crime, from spiraling chaos was making daily life hell. After a brutal journey 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. Here Pablo Cruz tells her story, aided by Julie Schwietert Collazo, founder of Immigrant Families Together, the grassroots organization that reunites mothers and children. Their book is a paean to the unbreakable will of people united by true love, a sense of justice, and hope for a better future. -- adapted from jacket

Contents

• The visit
• Doors
• Hunger
• The migrant highway
• Trucks
• Arrival
• The icebox
• Separation
• Lockup
• Takeoff and landing
• Reunion
• A wild idea
• Rebuilding a family
• Bittersweet season
• School days
• The horizon
• Epilogue.