Marina Budhos

We Are All We Have Marina Budhos

When a teenage girl's single mom is taken by ICE, everything changes--all of her hopes and dreams for the future have turned into survival.
 

There's a knock at the door.
It's the police.
They're taking Rania's mom.
 
Seventeen-year-old Rania doesn't understand why--they've done all the right things, haven't they? Her mom said their case with immigration was fine. If this was a lie, what else is?  
 
Alone with her younger brother, Kamal, Rania will have to figure out how to survive. When they wind up in a home with other kids waiting to hear if they can stay in this country, she meets a charming boy named Carlos. He persuades Rania to go to her high school graduation. And from there, they just keep driving.
 
Searching for freedom while feeling trapped by circumstances beyond their control, Rania begins to fall for Carlos and uncovers painful truths about her family, and this country, where being an asylum seeker or an undocumented immigrant can mean anything but freedom.