Solimar Castro Valdez is leaving her Mexican home to go to America and become an American citizen. In her quest to do so, she becomes involved with traffickers trying to get her and others into the States. She becomes involved with a group, one of whom (Checo) becomes her lover.
She is mistreated in many ways, but finds, once she settles with her cousin in Berkeley, CA, that she is pregnant.
She has a job as a housekeeper/nanny and is doing well, but not legally. She has her baby boy and is doing well, until it is found that she is not legal.
Ignacio, her baby boy, is taken from her and she is put into jail as a nonlegal. That is when Ignacio is put into a foster home with Rishi & Kavya Reddy. They grow to love him and want to adopt him.
Well-written and sad for both sides of this child's "parents".
She is mistreated in many ways, but finds, once she settles with her cousin in Berkeley, CA, that she is pregnant.
She has a job as a housekeeper/nanny and is doing well, but not legally. She has her baby boy and is doing well, until it is found that she is not legal.
Ignacio, her baby boy, is taken from her and she is put into jail as a nonlegal. That is when Ignacio is put into a foster home with Rishi & Kavya Reddy. They grow to love him and want to adopt him.
Well-written and sad for both sides of this child's "parents".
