Publisher's Synopsis
There is a word Mateo Garcia and his younger sister Sophia have been taught to fear for as long as they can remember: deportation. Over the past few years, however, the concern that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back to Mexico has started to fade to the back of their minds. And why wouldn't it, when their Ma and Pa have been in the United States for so long, they have American-born children, and they're hard workers and good neighbors?
But when two ICE agents come looking for Pa, the Garcia family realizes that the lives they've built could well come crumbling down. Then, Mateo returns from school one day to find that their worst nightmare realized: his parents have been detained.
With his Ma and Pa being held in separate detention centers, Mateo must step-up and learn how to look after his sister and himself. The choices Mateo makes, and the people he turns to for help, might reunite his family?or tear them apart for good. With his parents' fate and his own future hanging in the balance, Mateo must figure out who he is and what he is capable of, even as he's forced to question what it means to be an American teenager in a country that rejects his own mom and dad.
INDIVISIBLE is a remarkable and timely story-both powerful in its explorations of immigration in American and deeply intimate in its portrait of a teen boy driven by his fierce, protective love for his parents and his sister.
