I used one of my precious Audible credits to listen to this book by the beautiful Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin actress, and my credit was well spent. In today’s current political climate, I think this tale of the way this country has failed immigrants attempting to legally become citizens is very important and should be a mandatory reading for anyone talking in all seriousness about building walls and “bad hombres.” Guerrero’s parents were ripped from her at the tender age of 14 a...

I'm a big fan of Diane from Jane the Virgin and I also loved her in Orange is the New Black so when I randomly seen this book on Book Outlet, I had to grab a copy. I read it soon after receiving it in the mail, which is pretty rare for me to read a book right away. I thought this book was amazing. I learned a lot from reading it and I was shown a perspective that I haven't seen before. I really appreciate everything that Diane put into this book and it's definitely worth a read.

4 star story written in a 3 star style so... 3.5 stars. I think this would've been a significantly better experience on audiobook.

This falls somewhere between three or four stars. Please note that the book has a co-author: Michelle Burford. Diane Guerrero is still rather young; she is born July 21, 1986. She is primarily an actress, not an author. It is to her credit that she saw the need for a co-author. She is writing this book to bring attention to the plight of undocumented immigrants in the United States. Definitely a worthy goal. The author's youth is evident in the language used by the author. On one hand her exuber...

Diane Guerrero story of immigrant parents touched me deeply. I am not that familiar with the actress, neither did I watch the show, Orange is the New Black interest me. I tried to get into it but was bored midway through the first episode, but I may go back to watch it. Back to the book, I thought that this was extraordinary but heartbreaking reading though the painful scenes. Tracing back to her childhood,Guerrero tells the story of her family persistence, faith and hard work ethic. I liked the...

You need not know anything about Guerrero or her career to read this book. It's not about how she made her break or what her path to Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin were.This is a book about growing up as a child of immigrants when your parents have been detained then deported. How do you make a life in the US when you're 14 and have no family to turn to? Guerrero's story is heartbreaking and hard to read, especially as she talks about struggling with learning disorders and mental he...

I listened to the audio of In the Country We Love. I feel like I listened to two stories -- one I loved and the other one I found so so.I haven't watched Orange is the New Black so I don't know Diane Guerrero. But I read a really positive review of her memoir on GR which made me feel like listening to her read her own story -- which turns out to be like two books -- although somewhat intertwined:Book 1: Guerrero tells the story of her family's move from Columbia to the US, how her parents lived

Audiobook..... Diane Guerrero's high pitch voice --along with her 'girlie-girlie' personality was a little grating for me.....( not the author's fault - it's her voice). It's just that her voice - over a long period just wasn't comforting. At times the way she talked - in slang -'cool' - 'hip jargon' was a bit distracting from the more poignant issues at hand. However, this young woman, lived in FEAR AS AS CHILD that her parents--illegal immigrants--would be deported from her. Diane was very a...

I was unfamiliar with Diane Guerrero prior to watching Orange is the New Black and I haven’t seen anything else she’s appeared in. While I was curious to check this book out, I was surprised by how much I ended up enjoying it. In the Country We Love: My Family Divided is a memoir by Guerrero discussing the deportation of her parents when she was 14 and how this, as you can imagine, greatly impacted her life. She notes in the book how much a person changes from 14 to even just 18, and to have you...

While COUNTRY sheds a heartbreaking insight into the way the U.S. treats immigrants, I felt that Guerrero's tone was a bit unnecessary & distracting to the themes of this book. (Trying to make jokes at inappropriate times ruins the powerful punch this could have given & the lacked the seriousness for such heavy topics. Thankfully, this doesn't occur over a long duration, but it is still noticeable.) I am thankful that Guerrero sticks to discussing her family & life stories, rather than a huge ch...

Diane Guerrero shares her story of growing up as the child of undocumented immigrants as a way of advocating for better immigration laws. Her parents were deported when she was only 14; for some reason nobody came for her and so she spent the next years with different friends of her family. She tells both the story of her life until then as well as her struggles afterwards. It is a very important and timely book and one I am glad to have read /listened to.I listened to the audio version of this

“For the thousands of nameless children who feel as forgotten as I did—this memoir is my gift to you. It’s as much for your healing as it is for my own.”I recently watched Diane Guerrero's interview where she talked about her family’s deportation and this sudden need in me sparked to pick up In the Country We Love. And I'm so glad I listened because I was mesmerized. Within these pages, Guerrero talks elaborately about everything that led up to that dreadful moment where her family was taken and...

Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || PinterestCelebrity memoirs can be hit or miss with me. I have found that unless they are either a) part of a fandom I ardently worship, b) have a story to tell that I can personally relate to, or c) just dishing out some A+ gossip, I have difficulty finishing them.IN THE COUNTRY WE LOVE is about Diane Guerrero's childhood. She grew up in numerous poor neighborhoods with her Colombian parents, both of whom were illegal immigrants. One day, when sh

As part of my Borders 2017 reading project, I wanted to read at least one book discussing undocumented people in America. Diane Guerrero is the only American-born member of her family, and when she was 14, her parents and brother were deported to Colombia. She arrived home to find an empty house, and the INS and Dept of Social Services somehow let her slip through the cracks. Thankfully the family had friends that took her in.It would be easy, and at first I found myself doing this too, to get d...

I commend the author so much for how completely vulnerable she was in telling this story, not only of her parents' deportation, but also of her struggles with depression, suicidal thoughts, and self-harm. It's sadly an all-too-common story, but one that she and millions of other children in her situation may not hear or see or read about in their youth. And that's such a formative time to feel supported, secure, or at the very least, seen. The writing is true to her voice, especially as it slips...

Normally I don’t think I’d be interested in reading a memoir by someone so young. Diane Guerrero was only 30 when this books was was published back in 2016, but she has experienced more in her childhood, teenage years and 20s than most of us will in our whole lives. I’ve read some celebrity memoirs that have just been very....bland. They all begin to run together at some point. Guerrero’s story is as unique as she is, though some elements of it are all too familiar.After her parents are deported...

Diane Guerrero has some important things to say about immigration reform in this country, but she gets in her own way a bit with the tone she chooses for this memoir. She was only fourteen years old when her parents were arrested while she was at school, and after they were swiftly deported back to their native Colombia, their only daughter was left completely alone. No one showed up to check on her welfare—not police, not ICE, not child protective services. So not only did her parents disappear...

When Diane Guerrero was just fourteen, she came home from school to find that her parents had been deported. They’d come from Colombia to New Jersey on a work visa before she was born (and they later moved to Boston), with every intention of pursuing permanent residency or citizenship. But a combination of factors stood in their way. One was fear that simply pursuing the process would put them on ICE’s radar and get them deported. They were uncertain of exactly how to go about the process proper...

I figured there would be some hard knocks in her past, but Diane Guerrero’s life (and particularly her response to her situation) was way more than I expected.Diane’s parents came to the US on temporary visas and overstayed. Like many they were looking for a better life. Diane was born a US citizen. You get a glimpse of what life is like for the Dreamers (technically her brother) and their families. They are poor, but not impoverished. They try to live beneath the radar and not call attention to...