Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....

"Gena Thomas tells the story of five-year-old Julia, whose harrowing journey with her mother from Honduras to the United States took her from cargo trailer to detention center to foster care. Weaving together the stories of birth mother and foster mother, this book shows the human face of the immigrant and refugee, the challenges of the immigration and foster care systems, and the tenacious power of motherly love"--

Sonia Nazario, zdobywczyni Nagrody Pulitzera, stworzyła niezwykłą książkę - reportaż o miłości, która nie zna granic. Opowiada w niej historię Enrique - honduraskiego chłopca odbywającego samotną, niebezpieczną podróż w poszukiwaniu pracującej w Stanach Zjednoczonych matki. Autorka, opuściła swój dom na wiele miesięcy i przemierzyła setki kilometrów na dachach pociągów towarowych, aby jak najwierniej odtworzyć niebezpieczeństwa,...