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Zusatztext “Offers an unflinching look at conditions in U.S. detention centers and a sobering reminder of the power of policy to change lives” Informationen zum Autor Rosayra Pablo Cruz es madre de cuatro hijos. Era dueña de una pequeña tienda de ropa en Guatemala antes de llegar a los Estados Unidos. Ahora que vive en Nueva York, es la copresidenta de la Asociación de Padres y Maestros de su hijo mayor y está activa en su iglesia y comunidad. Julie Schwietert Collazo es una escritora, editora y traductora bilingue (inglés-español), y ex terapeuta de artes creativas. Ha co-escrito y editado un libro sobre el Papa Francisco, que ha sido traducido a más de una docena de idiomas y es un bestseller en Italia. Su trabajo ha aparecido en varios medios de comunicación, incluyendo Outside , Scientific American , Discover , Latina , The Guardian y Time , y ha contribuido a varios libros. Vive en Nueva York. Klappentext “Offers hope in the face of desperate odds” – ELLEMagazine, ELLE’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020 “[D]isturbing and unforgettablememoir…This 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 eloquent…narrative of a Guatemalan woman's desperate search for abetter life." -Kirkus, STARRED Review PEOPLE MagazineBest Books of Summer 2020 TIME MagazineBest Books of Summer 2020 PARADE BestBooks of Summer 2020 Compellingand 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: violence—fromgangs, from crime, from spiraling chaos—was 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. In TheBook 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 despair—and 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 Rosy is also a paean tothe unbreakable will of people united by true love, a sense of justice, andhope for a better future. Zusammenfassung “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 PARADE Best Books of Summer 2020 Compelling and urgently important, The Book of Rosy
