When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own--one that just might bring her mother home.
Themes & Content
- Genres
- Fiction
- Central Theme Categories
- Oppression & Resilience
- Ethnicity
- Haitian
- Immigration Representation
- Immigrants
- Gender Representation
- Boys/Men
- Girls/Women
- Race / Culture
- Black/African/African American
- Character Prominence
- Joint Main
- Secondary
