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

Rosayra Pablo Cruz, Julie Schwietert Collazo, Almarie Guerra, Jayme Mattler

eAudio - 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 ReviewCompelling 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... more