The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

by Lauren Markham

Book Overview

The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California--fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.

Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores--until, at age seventeen, a deadly threat from the region's brutal gangs forces them to flee the only home they've ever known...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101906200
• ISBN13: 9781101906200
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.1"