FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES Reserve Reward | LONGLISTED FOR THE Pencil/BOGRAD WELD Reward FOR BIOGRAPHY| SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS Publication PRIZE | Magic WINNER FROM THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD| WINNER FROM THE RIDENHOUR Publication Reward |The deeply reported tale 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 about The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of the American Life in the wake of the civil battle, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores-until, at age seventeen, a deadly threat in the region’s brutal gangs causes these to flee the only house they’ve ever known. Within this immediate chronicle of modern immigration, journalist Lauren Markham follows the Flores twins because they make their way across the Rio Grande and the Tx desert, in to the hands of immigration regulators, and following that to their estranged old sibling in Oakland, CA. Shortly these unaccompanied minors are navigating college in a new language, working to pay down their mounting coyote debts, and facing their day time in immigration court, while also encountering the triumphs and pitfalls of teenage existence with only one another for support. With intimate access and breathtaking range, Markham provides an memorable testament to the migrant experience.

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