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  • Detained: A Boy's Journal of Survival and Resilience

    Detained: A Boy's Journal of Survival and Resilience - Hardcover

    Detained: A Boy's Journal of Survival and Resilience - Hardcover

    By David Esperanza and Gerardo Iván Morales

About David Esperanza Books

David Esperanza was born in Honduras. When he was a baby, his parents migrated to the United States so they could provide him with a better life. At the age of thirteen, he and three cousins began traveling north to seek asylum in the United States. When they arrived at the border in 2018, at the height of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy, he was separated from his cousins and sent to a child detention center in Tornillo, Texas. After five months of excruciating uncertainty, he was released and reunited with his father. He is now the proud father of a baby boy.