story by René Colato Laínez, illustrations by Joe Cepeda.
This children’s book, just published in a bilingual edition with charming oil paintings accompanying the text, distills the headlines about undocumented immigrants to the tender and hopeful story of one little boy who journeys with his father from San Diego to visit his mother in Tijuana after she is deported (“Two weeks ago, Mamá didn’t come home from work”). José and his father spend a day at El Centro Madre Assunta, a refuge for immigrant women and children waiting to be reunited with their families across the border. Their visit ends when night comes: “I dreamt that Mamá had the right papers and we crossed the border together.”
via:colorlines.com
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