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02388aam a2200325 4500 001 BAA1592E7BB911EA9517636397128E48 003 SILO 005 20200411010010 008 190719s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2019030979 020 $a 1432872060 LP (hardcover) : 020 $a 9781432872069 LP (hardcover) : 040 $d IaMp $d SILO 100 1 $a Casares, Oscar. 245 1 $a Where we come from $h [large print] / $c by Oscar Casares. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2019. 300 $a 393 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a "From a distance, the towns along the U.S.-Mexican border have dangerous reputations--on one side, drug cartels; on the other, zealous border patrol agents--and Brownsville is no different. But to twelve-year-old Orly, it's simply where his godmother Nina lives--and where he is being forced to stay the summer after his mother's sudden death. For Nina, Brownsville is where she grew up, where she lost her first and only love, and where she stayed as her relatives moved away and her neighborhood deteriorated. It's the place where she has buried all her secrets--and now she has another: she's providing refuge for a young immigrant boy named Daniel, for whom traveling to America has meant trading one set of dangers for another. Separated from the violent human traffickers who brought him across the border and pursued by the authorities, Daniel must stay completely hidden. But Orly's arrival threatens to put them all at risk of exposure. Tackling the crisis of U.S. immigration policy from a deeply human angle, Where We Come From explores through an intimate lens the ways that family history shapes us, how secrets can burden us, and how finding compassion and understanding for others can ultimately set us free"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20191217. 650 $a Human trafficking victims $v Fiction. 650 $a Large print book $v Fiction. 650 $a Immigration and emigration $v Fiction. 650 $a Extended families $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Undocumented immigrants $v Fiction. 650 $a Godmothers $v Fiction. 650 $a Mexican American boys $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20200411010740.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BAA1592E7BB911EA9517636397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search