In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

The star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country
Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit 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 U.S., 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 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, many of whom have citizen children, whose lives here are just as precarious, and whose stories haven't been told. Written with bestselling author 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 likes the author's and on a system that fails them over and over.
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I think this has something to do with "ghost writer" Michelle Burford and the manner in which Diane's story was stripped of the authentic perspective from which such a personal story is delivered and placed in to this over dramatized recount you might hear in a documentary or a made for TV movie narration. It is really hard to describe but some of the vocabulary, timeline and explanations seemed to feel as though Diane (who narrates the audiobook herself) was not truly speaking in her own voice.
However, there were several moments I was able to truly connect and empathize with Diane and her story in terms of her love for school and the escape it brought her later on in life and a handful of other details.
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