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The Burning of a Dream: A Family Detained; A Story America Tried to Erase
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 28 2026
Pages: 620
Weight: 1.62
Height: 1.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They came to America searching for hope.
What they found was fire, detention, and a system designed to erase them.
After losing their home in San Francisco's Excelsior District, Rafael and his family are forced into a desperate fight for survival that ends in catastrophe when an ICE raid tears them apart overnight. Separated beneath the cold fluorescent lights of an American detention facility, each member of the family begins unraveling beneath fear, exhaustion, guilt, and psychological trauma.
As hallucinations spread and hope begins to rot into despair, Rafael becomes consumed by the belief that migration destroyed the people he loves most. Carmen struggles to hold onto her faith while watching her family collapse piece by piece. LucÃa clings desperately to dreams of nursing school and a future beyond survival. And young Ana is forced to become the emotional protector of her little brother before childhood disappears entirely.
Dark, immersive, and emotionally devastating, The Burning of a Dream is a haunting literary novel about family separation, immigration trauma, detention centers, survival, memory, and the psychological cost of the American Dream.
Inspired by the real emotional aftermath of policies and events that unfolded during the Trump Administration, this unforgettable novel explores what happens when human beings are reduced to paperwork, fear, and silence - and what survives anyway.
Because even beneath fluorescent lights and endless fear, love refuses to disappear.
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