In the Country We LoveIn the Country We Love

"Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahits Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the United States, Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family. In the Country We Love is a moving, heartbreaking story of one woman's extraordinary resilience in the face of the nightmarish struggles of undocumented residents in this country. There are over eleven million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, many of whom have citizen children, whose lives here are precarious and whose stories haven't been told. Written with ... Michelle Burford, this memoir is a tale of personal triumph that also casts a much-needed light on the fears that haunt the daily existence of families like the author's and on a system that fails them over and over"--Front jacket flap.