By Amanda Eyre WardImmigration law, DACA, deportations - these are topics we hear a lot about in today's news, but here's a story that illustrates what it's like to live in a country that's unsafe, and the risks one takes in the hope of finding refuge in the US.
Two parallel stories move along without any apparent connection. Alice and Jake are a young couple living in Austin, Texas; they run a popular Texas barbecue restaurant, but feel incomplete, as they are unable to have children. Carla is a young Honduran girl, living by her wits in Tegucigalpa. She leaves everything she knows for the chance to be reunited with her mother, who works in a chicken fast-food place in Austin. The road north leads through Guatemala and Mexico where Carla faces horrible dangers. The author visited shelters in Texas and California, and this book reflects some of her research.
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