Isbn: 9780062941930 - bk rosy: the book of rosy: a mother’s story of separation at the border – a powerful memoir of asylum and survival (8 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "Offers hope in the face of desperate odds" ELLEMagazine, ELLE's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020"[D]isturbing and unforgettablememoirThis wrenching story brings to vivid life the plight of the manyfamilies separated at the U.S.-Mexico border."Publisher's Weekly, STARRED REVIEW"[The]haunting and eloquentnarrative of a Guatemalan woman's desperate search for abetter life.' -Kirkus,STARRED ReviewPEOPLE MagazineBest Books of Summer 2020TIME MagazineBest Books of Summer 2020PARADE BestBooks of Summer 2020Compellingand urgently important, The Book of Rosy is the unforgettable story ofone brave mother and her fight to save her family. WhenRosayra "Rosy" Pablo Cruz made the agonizing decision to seek asylum in theUnited States with two of her children, she knew the journey would be arduous,dangerous, and quite possibly deadly. But she had no choice: violencefromgangs, from crime, from spiraling chaoswas making daily life hell. Rosy knewher family's one chance at survival was to flee Guatemala and go north.After abrutal journey that left them dehydrated, exhausted, and nearly starved, Rosyand her two little boys arrived at the Arizona border. Almost immediately theywere seized and forcibly separated by government officials under the Departmentof Homeland Security's new "zero tolerance" policy. To her horror Rosydiscovered that her flight to safety had only just begun.InTheBook of Rosy, with an unprecedented level of sharp detail and soulful intimacy,Rosy tells her story, aided by Julie Schwietert Collazo, founder of ImmigrantFamilies Together, the grassroots organization that reunites mothers andchildren. She reveals the cruelty of the detention facilities, the excruciatingpain of feeling her children ripped from her arms, the abiding faith thatstaved off despairand the enduring friendship with Julie, which helped hernavigate the darkness and the bottomless Orwellian bureaucracy.A gripping account of the humancost of inhumane policies,The Book of Rosyis also a paean tothe unbreakable will of people united by true love, a sense of justice, andhope for a better future.…