The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

Stephen O. Murray said Heartbreaking story even though it's one of relatively "lucky" refugees from gang violence targeting them in El Salvador. The Far Away Brothers (shouldn’t there be a hyphen?), Lauren Markham’s tale of the travails of a pair of twins who fled El Salvador, rightly fearing for their lives, begins badly for them and by inspiring mistrust of the author in me. They cannot fi. A bit rough around the edges, but informative and even entertaining reading Neal Reynolds This is an easy read, just about as relaxing a read as a novel. There's a lot of rough language here, but it gives the story a harsh reality. I call it a story because of the readability, but it is indeed a true story. It's also a book in which you will gain un. "Timely topic but too much profanity" according to Joel Holtz. This story of migrant twins is ok, but be forewarned it's full of profanity which I could've done without. The author discusses important issues in the immigration debate, including abuse, prolonged detention, bad conditions in dentention centers, and limited a

Lauren earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been awarded Fellowships from the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism, the 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship, the Mesa Refuge, and the Rotary Foundation. Her work has appeared in VQR, VICE, Orion, Pacific Standard, Guernica, The New Yorker, o

immigration policy, and an unforgettable testament to the migrant experience.. But when Ernesto ends up on the wrong side of the region's brutal gangs he is forced to flee the country, and Raul, because he looks just like his brother, follows close behind—away from one danger and toward the great American unknown.In this urgent chronicle of contemporary immigration, journalist Lauren Markham follows the seventeen-year-old Flores twins as they make their harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, into the hands of immigration authorities, and from there to their estranged older brother's custody in Oakland, CA. The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California—fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United States, the distant land of skyscrapers and Nikes, while his identical twin, Raul, never felt that northbound tug. Soon these unaccompanied minors are navigating a new school in a new language, working to pay down their mounting coyote debt, and facing their day in immigration court, while also encountering the triumphs and pitfalls of life as American teenagers—girls, grades, Facebook—with only each other for support. With intimate access and breathta

This is the sort of book you'll be thinking about at night." —Domingo Martinez, author of The Boy Kings of Texas“The most moving revelation of this book comes not from the geo-political lessons we learn, the path of the brothers through the desert, or the obstacles they face in U.S. Anyone who wants to understand more deeply how we got here and why we need to keep going until we get someplace better should dive into this book." —Rebecca Solnit, author of The Mother of All Questions“In the midst of a contentious debate in which reality