A powerful coming-of-age story of one boy’s unchosen fight for survival.
From The Ashes of Santiago
The world outside our home is shifting. The whispers turn into warnings. The military grows restless. My mother’s voice is louder than ever, but I see the fear creeping into her eyes.
When the coup took Santiago, she knew our time had run out. My father - once a man I admired, and someone who held a presence so large in my life - was already starting to slip away, consumed by something neither of us could fight. He would become a ghost long before he was gone.
I didn't have the words to explain what was happening, but I felt it in my bones. We were running.
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At its core, this book is a love letter to my father and to every child who has been uprooted from everything they know, thrust into survival mode by forces far beyond their control. Children don’t choose political asylum. They are the innocents in political unrest, the quiet victims of wars they didn’t start, and the witnesses to histories they never asked to be part of. Their resilience is unmatched, but their stories are too often untold.
Thank you for taking this journey with me. I hope this story moves you as deeply as it has moved me.
With love,
E.T. Schrieber
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