The Death of Josseline
Regan, Margaret. The Death of Josseline. 2010. (325.73 Regan.M)
This horrific documentation of immigration stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands includes the tragic attempted crossing by fourteen-year-old Josseline Jamileth Hernández Quinteros. At five feet tall and a hundred pounds she was in charge of bringing her ten-year-old brother to their mother in Los Angeles, but she fell ill and ordered her brother to go on without her. By the weekend, the brother makes it to L.A. A few weeks later, a dead body in the desert is found and identified as Josseline the signifier being her green shoes and pants with a single word written on them: HOLLYWOOD. The author gives insight into the desperation that leads to the unidentified bodies piled up in a Tucson morgue. It’s astonishing. (Elvira C-D, Reader’s Services)
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