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My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration From the Front Lines
by Efrén C. Olivares
challenging
emotional
informative
medium-paced
For context: I'm queer, white, and have the privilege of a safe place to live.
I picked this book up during an impulse run to my town's library while on a remote work day and fell in love with it; My Boy Will Die of Sorrow is something many Americans should share with each other to read during this burst in anti-immigration legislative, especially folks my age (24) who may not have been able to get ahold of history texts on the creation of DHS, ICE, and the Zero Tolerance Policy--this novel was published in 2022 and is a crucial merger of these vastly different protocols, which he breaks down in a format that is easy to understand.
Olivares' storytelling is wonderful; he intertwines his experiences in immigrating the Texas in the early 90s from Mexico as a kid while dedicating a narrative of equal weight for a handful of immigrants who are fleeing their respective countries post Bush-era of immigration hate. It was heartbreakign to see Olivares compare his experience as a family that moved for better economic success to parents that are migrating hundreds of miles to protect their children from violence in their native countries.
On a personal notes, Olivares' life in the U.S puts him in McAllen, Texas; I have loved ones who also immigrated to McAllen during the 90s and early 2000s under similar circumstances such as his family, so it was rather precious to see a window in a past that my loved rarely talk about.
I picked this book up during an impulse run to my town's library while on a remote work day and fell in love with it; My Boy Will Die of Sorrow is something many Americans should share with each other to read during this burst in anti-immigration legislative, especially folks my age (24) who may not have been able to get ahold of history texts on the creation of DHS, ICE, and the Zero Tolerance Policy--this novel was published in 2022 and is a crucial merger of these vastly different protocols, which he breaks down in a format that is easy to understand.
Olivares' storytelling is wonderful; he intertwines his experiences in immigrating the Texas in the early 90s from Mexico as a kid while dedicating a narrative of equal weight for a handful of immigrants who are fleeing their respective countries post Bush-era of immigration hate. It was heartbreakign to see Olivares compare his experience as a family that moved for better economic success to parents that are migrating hundreds of miles to protect their children from violence in their native countries.
On a personal notes, Olivares' life in the U.S puts him in McAllen, Texas; I have loved ones who also immigrated to McAllen during the 90s and early 2000s under similar circumstances such as his family, so it was rather precious to see a window in a past that my loved rarely talk about.