Because this story is about her life I don’t feel entitled to give this a star rating. However I do want to say that I loved this book! So much of my childhood life I see reflected in this story! My parents and myself along with my cousin came from Colombia in 1999. The fear that she lives with about the immigration status is something that I faced myself. I found this book to give a young audience an idea of what it’s like to be children of immigrants and I’m thankful that Diane made the decision to write her story for a younger audience. I do want to give trigger warnings for depression, thoughts of suicide with a semi plan happening as well as self harm.

For the audience that this is intended I urge parents to read this with them specially the harder parts. And talk about what it means for some children to actually live with this daily fear.

Thank you Diane for this book, thank you for sharing your story. I love seeing you in OITNB and I will definitely pick up your other book as well.