It's amazing to read and know the preservarence that this woman has had to get to where she is now. Pursuing acting is tough and more so when you don't have your family around who were taken in a blink of an eye. In this case, the author did not see this happening to her parents but the realization of what happened from practically a stranger is crushing and sick inducing. This was an easy read but very touching. Immigration affects everyone, not just immigrants and their families. The whole nation should be preoccupied with the many times inefficient immigration process that leaves many in limbo or on the other side of the border for greatly unjust reasons.

Writing this review a while after having finished the book, I remember My Family Divided as an approachable, honest, and hard-hitting reflection of immigration in America. Diane Guerrero's is not the first story of its kind I've heard, but probably the most devastating. I was first introduced to her through watching Orange is the New Black--a role that makes many stories in this book even harder to read. What I appreciate most about this book is its truthfulness in discussing American policies while being aimed at and entertaining for middle-grade children. Stories like Diane's are not widely shared but are necessary for us all to hear. This book is unique and important in all that it has to share; I will remember it for a very long time.

A good book for those who don’t have any friends who are undocumented immigrants and don’t understand their challenges.

It was good but not gripping.

This was a great book for facilitating conversation with my children on the topic of immigration and being in the minority. It was helpful to see the experience of another very different from our own in this country that we love.

I inadvertently picked up the young adult version of this book (See "In the Country we love: my family divided" for adult version), so the writing style may have affected my rating by a star. But since Diane was 14 when her parents were suddenly deported while she was in school, her descriptions of her terror, sadness, uncertainty and anger (at her parents and later the immigration policies of the U.S.) as a teenager and young adult really resonated. Having known the author only as Maritza on "Orange is the New Black", I enjoyed learning more about the woman behind the character and applaud her activism. Sadly, her story of losing her parents to deportation is being played out again and again in this country.