It is a harrowing and intimate account of an epic, cross-border journey, a tale filled with family, violence, love, injustice, perseverance, and, ultimately, redemption." - Hector Tobar, author of Deep Down Dark and The Barbarian Nurseries "Excellently researched and exquisitely told, here is a story of the Americas for our times." -Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street and Women Hollering Creek and Other Stories "Bobrow-Strain, an academic and an immersion journalist of conscience in the mode of Alex Kotlowitz, tells the dramatic true tale of a woman he calls Aida Hernandez with extraordinary clarity and power. There are echoes of Victor Hugo and Emile Zola in The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez. a radiantly optimistic character in a relentlessly bleak, unlucky world."The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez is an illuminating work of literature, not an ideological tract." -Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times Book Review "Here, at long last, is a nonfiction account of our country's immigration drama written with the intelligence, passion, and sweep of a great novel. A rich, novelistic tale of a young woman whose life spans both sides of the United States-Mexican border. He also shows us that the heroes of our current immigration wars are less likely to be perfect paragons of virtue than complex, flawed human beings who deserve justice and empathy all the same. With emotional force and narrative suspense, Aaron Bobrow-Strain brings us into the heart of a violently unequal America. Taking us into detention centers, immigration courts, and the inner lives of Aida and other daring characters, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez reveals the human consequences of militarizing what was once a more forgiving border. The daughter of a rebel hero from the mountains of Chihuahua, Aida has a genius for survival-but returning to the United States was just the beginning of her quest. To get back to the United States and reunite with her son, she embarked on a harrowing journey. Following a misstep that led to her deportation, Aida found herself in a Mexican city marked by violence, in a country that was not hers. She learned English, watched Friends, and, after having a baby at sixteen, dreamed of teaching dance and moving with her son to New York City. Undocumented, Aida fought to make her way. By then, the border had become one of the most heavily policed sites in America.
Eight years later, Aida's mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona. border was little more than a worn-down fence. immigration system? When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S.
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