Diane Guerrero, the star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin , presents her personal story in this middle-grade memoir about her parents\' deportation and the nightmarish struggles of undocumented immigrants and their American children. -- Kirkus Reviews.
This is a timely reminder that none of us lives in a vacuum and that deportation affects more than just the deportee . . . -- The New York Times Book Review Eminently accessible . .how a child\'s resilience can be as heartbreaking as it is inspirational . . .
To read this book is to understand. .
Praise for My Family Divided: This memoir\'s greatest strength is that it captures how life moves on even after a great Loss .
Reflective of the experiences of millions of undocumented immigrant families in the United States, Guerrero\'s story in My Family Divided , written with Erica Moroz, is at once heartbreaking and hopeful.
Guerrero\'s life, which had been full of the support of a loving family, was turned upside down.
One day, while Guerrero was at school, her undocumented immigrant parents were taken from their home, detained, and deported.
Before landing a spot on the megahit Netflix show Orange is the New Black ; before wow-ing audiences as Lina on Jane the Virgin ; and before her incredible activism and work on immigration reform, Diane Guerrero was a young girl living in Boston.
Diane Guerrero, the star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin , presents her personal story in this middle-grade memoir about her parents\' deportation and the nightmarish struggles of undocumented immigrants and their American children