Rosayra Pablo Cruz is the mother of four children. She owned a small clothing store in Guatemala before coming to the U.S. Now living in New York, she is the co-president of her oldest son's Parent Teacher Association and is active in her church and community. She is currently in the midst of her asylum-seeking proceedings. Julie Schwietert Collazo, co-founder and director of Immigrant Families Together, is a bilingual (English-Spanish) writer, editor, and translator whose work covers a wide range of topics and interests, from art to science and from food to Pope Francis. A former creative arts therapist, Julie left the field of social work and psychotherapy in 2004 to live abroad and to focus on her own writing full-time. In the years since, she has interviewed a First Lady and Ferran Adría, has covered the state visit of a royal, was one of the few journalists permitted to visit the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in 2008, and has co-written/edited a book about Pope Francis, which to date has been translated into more than a dozen languages and is a bestseller in Italy. She has written for a number of print and online magazines, including National Geographic Traveler, Outside, Scientific American, DISCOVER, Latina, The Guardian, and TIME and has contributed to several books.
[The] haunting and eloquent...narrative of a Guatemalan woman's desperate search for a better life. -- <em><strong>Kirkus</strong></em>