What a difficult but important read. Although it’s dystopian and set in the future there is so much that is what we have seen under the Trump administration. We follow Vali and her family trying to find sanctuary as the government closes in all on illegal immigrants. Citizens are required to wear chips to prove they are legally allowed to be there. Her mother and her had fake chips implanted but they cost 5,000 and they were unable to
Get one for her father. He was deported and they found out he was murdered. Vali saw a picture of his body after he had been found. The government has been cracking down even more and her mother fears they are not safe so they start their journey to sanctuary but her mother is captured along three way and her mother pleaded with her to continue the trip with her brother. He is only 8 and is in the country legally but that doesn’t matter because no one else in the family is. Vali is determined to get to
New York to Find the nun that has promised to
Help them get to Sanctuary.
This book is heartbreaking and the sad part is some of these things are occurring now. Incited and my heart broke over and over again but I knew I had to continue. I think this should be required reading for high schoolers.