Dreams and Nightmares: I Fled Alone to the United States When I Was Fourteen

by Liliana Velásquez, Mark Lyons (Translator)

Overview

At fourteen, Liliana Velásquez walked out of her village in Guatemala and headed for the U.S. border, alone. On her two-thousand-mile voyage she was robbed by narcos, rode the boxcars of La Bestia, and encountered death in the Sonoran Desert.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602359406
Publisher:	Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date:	04/14/2017
Series:	Working and Writing for Change
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
Sales rank:	741,267
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Liliana Velásquez was born in Villaflor, Guatemala. Dreams and Nightmares / Sueños y Pesadillas is her first publication. Mark Lyons is the director of the Philadelphia Storytelling Project, where he works with immigrants, students and homeless veterans to create audio stories.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Mark Lyons

Prologue

I Guatemala

Villaflor ◆ I Can’t Take It Anymore

II My Journey

Preparation ◆ Chiapas ◆ The Beast ◆ Oaxaca ◆ The Police Stop Us ◆ Mexico City ◆ Finally: Altar and the Border ◆ Captured ◆ House of Dreams

III Philadelphia

My First Foster Family ◆ La Puerta Abierta / 

The Open Door ◆ My New Family ◆ Green

Card! ◆ My New House of Dreams ◆ My New High School ◆ Two Birthday Parties ◆ Thanksgiving ◆ Christmas ◆ My Quilt ◆ My Boyfriend ◆

The Return of the Coyote ◆ I Visit My Brothers ◆ An Adult Once Again ◆ My Second Visit to My Brothers ◆ Helping My Family in Guatemala

IV Reflections

I Got Rid of My Fear ◆ Now I Have Two Families ◆ Fulfilling My Dreams

V Finally, I Have Told My Story

Acknowledgments