**Diane Guerrero, the star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the
Virgin, presents her personal story in this middle-grade memoir about
her parents' deportation and the nightmarish struggles of undocumented
immigrants and their American children.
**
Before landing a spot on the megahit Netflix show Orange is the New
Black; before wow-ing audiences as Lina on Jane the Virgin; and
before her incredible activism and work on immigration reform, Diane
Guerrero was a young girl living in Boston. One day, while Guerrero was
at school, her undocumented immigrant parents were taken from their
home, detained, and deported. Guerrero's life, which had been full of
the support of a loving family, was turned upside down.
Reflective of the experiences of millions of undocumented immigrant
families in the United States, Guerrero's story in My Family Divided,
written with Erica Moroz, is at once heartbreaking and hopeful.
**Praise for *My Family Divided:
"This memoir's greatest strength is that it captures how life moves on
even after a great loss. . .To read this book is to understand. . .how
a child's resilience can be as heartbreaking as it is
inspirational." --The New York Times Book Review
"Eminently accessible. . . This is a timely reminder that none of us
lives in a vacuum and that deportation affects more than just the
deportee." --Kirkus Reviews