'Borderless' is a YA novel about a teenage migrant separated from her mother
Podcast: NPR's Book of the DayPublished On: Thu Jun 08 2023
Description: Jennifer De Leon's new YA novel, Borderless, tells the story of a Guatemalan teenager named Maya. Though she has a rich and fulfilling life in her home country, circumstances arise that push Maya and her mother towards the U.S. border, where they're separated by immigration officials. In today's episode, De Leon speaks with Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes about complicating the image of what a migrant looks like and why she wanted to write the real life zero-tolerance policy into this story.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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