A review by booknrrd
The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border by Rosayra Pablo Cruz, Julie Schwietert Collazo

4.0

The Book of Rosy is the story of a Guatemalan mother's journey to the US and her separation from her sons at the border. In Guatemala, her husband had been killed, she herself had been shot several times, and her oldest son was being threatened by gangs. This is her story, and also there are a few sections by a New York woman who was moved by what she saw on the news to create a fund to bail migrant women out of jail so that they could be reunited with their children. She was able to help a lot of women including Rosayra.

I found Julie's sections a little less compelling. In fact, the first time one happened it was pretty jarring to me. This is a large part of why the book only received 4 stars. It's not that I don't think her work isn't important; it just didn't seem to fit as well as it could have.