In the Country We Love: A Memoir of Family, Separation, and Hope

Stephanie T.: So good, so relatable, read it every day on the train in NYC. Ty for sharing everything and hope to bump into you one day in nyc.

United States on Oct 25, 2023

Joseph Abbott: Very amazing book. Finished it in three days!

United States on Jul 23, 2023

Kiki: The story of Diane is absolutely captivating and heart-wrenching. The book is so well written which makes it hard to put down. You will think, cry and laugh throughout the whole story. Her story is just one of a million other immigrants; most of us will never understand the pain they have to endure. This book makes you appreciate what you have. Be grateful for your life and help others that are struggling.

Germany on Jan 02, 2023

Juanjo: It was a good book in order to feel the grow of a girl who turned into a strong woman.

Spain on Dec 21, 2020

Zaidfayaz: One of the best bios I've read. A beautifully written about such a horrible experience of hers. Her vunerability makes it even more heartbreaking!

United Kingdom on May 16, 2020

Chrisy: Diane's story is one that needed to be told. What happend to her has happend to thousands of children here in the U.S. but most of their stories will never be heard. When she was 14, Diane came home from school to discover that her house was empty, and had to be informed by a neighbor that her parents were taken. No government official even bothered to inform her school or check on her welfare during the after math.
As terrible as her situation was, Diane was lucky enough to have a community of close knit friends who took her in so she could at least have food and shelter until she was old enough to start working and eventually find her own way. Even though she ended up being a success, her life was filled with terrible struggles from basically being parent less from that point forward. She made several mistakes along the way but some how she made it through.
Diane's parents did everything they could to become citizens, filling out stacks of paperwork and spending thousands of hard earned dollars, but for them and many others, there is no path to citizenship and when there is it can be up to a 20 year process. It can be a lot more complicated than what many people believe...

United States on Nov 26, 2019

alex: love

United Kingdom on Oct 07, 2019

Alex: One of the best books I have read. Allows the reader to gain a glimpse of what life is like for undocumented immigrants

Canada on Nov 14, 2017

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Diane Guerrero wrote a very genuine, heartfelt description of the saga she and her immediate family (parents and brother) endured as a result of being illegal aliens (she was not, though, she is a natural-born U.S. citizen).

For those unfamiliar with U.S. immigration law, most persons here illegally did not sneak across the border. Rather, like Guerrero's parents and brother, they arrived legally, but stayed beyond their allotted time. In their case, the author somewhat misleadingly describes their having arrived "on a four-year visitor's visa," because there is really no such thing. The visa is typically granted for 90 days, but may be used at any point within four years; it does not allow a person to visit the United States legally for a four-year span.

Guerrero effectively depicts her family's life. Her parents were not drug dealers, not gunrunners, not terrorists. They were loving parents who just wanted to put food on the table for themselves and their children.

But what Guerrero's book also does is underscore the...

United States on Apr 17, 2017

Amazon Customer: I saw Diane on a panel on Face the Nation and bought the book. I also got the audible version so I listened to the author read most of the book. I did not know until nearly the end that she was on Orange is the new Black and Jane the Virgin.

When she was 14 years old, living in Boston, both parents were deported to Columbia. Diane was born in the US so she was a citizen. Friends took her in. She was able to attend a good high school. She is beautiful and talented and so she made it as an actress. Her family problems did not start that day, however. Her parents were extremely anxious all of the time. Her older brother was also deported.

I recommend reading this book to better understand what our undocumented population live with. If the US had better control over visas, some of these situations would be avoided. But how to respond to the millions already here, people who have lived lawfully for a decade, that is the question. We also need to realize that these people are a part of the economy. There is a reason why the Congress, responsible for establishing a naturalization process in the Constitution, have failed to do their job. That reason needs to be brought to...

United States on Jan 25, 2017