When a teenage girl’s single mom is taken by ICE everything changes—all of her hopes and dreams for the future have turned into survival.
Seventeen-year-old Rania is shaken awake in her family's apartment in Brooklyn. ICE is at the door taking her mother away. But Ammi has done everything right hasn’t she? Their asylum case is fine. This was supposed to be Rania’s greatest summer: hanging out with her best friend Fatima and getting ready for college in the fall. But it’s 2019 and nothing is certain. Now along with her younger brother Kamal and a new friend Carlos Rania must figure out how to survive. A road trip leads to searching for answers to questions she didn’t even think to ask. In this vivid exploration of what happens when the country you have put your hopes into is fast shutting down award-winning author Marina Budhos shows us how one girl bursting with dreams navigates secrets love and the lure of the open road.
