American Enough: abridged and adapted audiobook Edition
American Enough:
The Diego Andres Morales Story.
The abridged and adapted edition
Diego Andrés Morales was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up on Saturday morning cartoons, Little League games, and his mother's cooking. He spoke perfect English, logged invoices at a tire shop, and scrolled through dating apps on his lunch break like any other twenty-year-old American kid.
Then ICE came.
A paperwork error—his parents' Colombian nationality, his own missing documents—turned his birth certificate into a fiction. In the space of one afternoon, Diego went from being a U.S. citizen to being "removed." Shuttled through detention centers and blacked-out vans, he was deposited across the Mexican border with seventy-two hours to leave a country that had already decided he didn't belong there.
What follows is a descent into a world Diego never imagined existed: freight trains called La Bestia that chew through migrants like machinery; coyotes who sell hope and deliver horror; warehouse floors where human bodies are logged like inventory; poppy fields where the debt is never paid and the work never ends. And at the center of it all, a man named Paul—violent and tender, cruel and protective, broken and breaking—who sees in Diego something he lost long ago, and tries to build a life from the wreckage of two ruined people.
AMERICAN ENOUGH is a novel about what happens when citizenship becomes conditional. About the first-generation kids born on U.S. soil who discover that their birthright can be erased by a stamp, a signature, a system that moves faster than justice. About love that grows in soil poisoned by power. About survival that looks like surrender and surrender that looks like survival. And about the silence that follows when the world stops looking for someone it never truly saw.
By Ki Lov3
Editor Toni Gelardi
Producer Lov3 Books ETC