Dreams and Nightmares: I Fled Alone to the United States When I Was Fourteen (in English and Spanish), Paperback/Liliana Velasquez

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Contributor(s):Author: Liliana Velasquez Editor: Mark Lyons Dreams and Nightmares appears in full color in both English and Spanish. Description At fourteen, Liliana Vel squez walked out of her village in Guatemala and headed for the U. S. border, alone. On her two-thousand-mile voyage she was robbed by narcos, rode the boxcars of La Bestia, and encountered death in the Sonoran Desert. When she was caught by Immigration in Arizona, she thought her journey was over. But it had just begun. A los catorce a os, Liliana abandonsu pueblo en Guatemala y se dirigihacia la frontera de los Estados Unidos, sola. En su viaje de dos mil millas fue asaltada por los narcos, viajen los vagones de La Bestia y se enfrenta la muerte en el desierto de Sonora. Cuando fue capturada por Inmigraci n en Arizona, ella pensque su viaje hab a terminado. Pero solo acababa de empezar. What People Are Saying While Immigrants' stories are often told by others, Liliana shares her personal experience of vulnerability, resilience and perseverance in the face of uncertainty. She is a strong and remarkable woman. Mientras que las historias de los inmigrantes son generalmente contadas por terceros, Liliana comparte su propia historia personal, su capacidad recuperativa y su perse-verancia en medio de mucha incertidumbre. Ella es una mujer fuerte y extraordinaria.--Mar a Sotomayor, DACA recipient, Youth Organizer, Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition Stories like Liliana's counter the inhumane narratives that cast migrants and refugees as "drug dealers and rapists," and instead offer US audiences a perspective infused with the genuine human experience of migration. Historias como la de Liliana contradicen a las historias des-humanizantes en las que se equipara a los inmigran-tes y refugiados con "narcotraficantes y violadores." La historia de Liliana ofrece al p blico estadounidense una perspectiva imbuida de una experiencia migratoria genuina-mente humana.--Aja Y. Martinez, Ph D, Syracuse University L