Indivisible, Daniel Aleman
Indivisible, Daniel Aleman
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Indivisible

Author: Daniel Aleman

Narrator: Adan Rocha

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/04/2021


Synopsis

This timely, moving debut novel follows a teen's efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation.

Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Over the past few years, however, the fear that their undocumented immigrant parents could be sent back to Mexico has started to fade. 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. When Mateo returns from school one day to find that his parents have been taken by ICE, he realizes that his family's worst nightmare has become a reality. 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.

Daniel Aleman's Indivisible is a remarkable story—both powerful in its explorations of immigration in America and deeply intimate in its portrait of a teen boy driven by his fierce, protective love for his parents and his sister.

About Daniel Aleman

Daniel Aleman is the award-winning author of Indivisible and Brighter Than the Sun. Born and raised in Mexico City, he has lived in various places across North America and is currently based in Toronto, where he is on a never-ending search for the best tacos in the city.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas on May 28, 2021

One of the top young-adult debuts of 2021 so far. Invisible by Daniel Aleman tells the heartbreaking story of Mateo Garcia, a sixteen-year-old who’s world gets shaken when ICE agents arrest his parents one day after he comes home from school. Mateo adopts the responsibility of caring for his younger......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on October 03, 2020

The cover is now live! I am so thrilled to finally be able to share it, and I could not be more excited for this story to be on shelves next spring.......more

Goodreads review by Marieke on January 19, 2022

Loving, raw, political, harsh, hopeful. Sometimes I wonder why I read YA stories that hurt so much. And then I realize I read them because they’re so, so important. And I hope a lot of other people read those stories too, especially teens, and reflect on them. Books like Indivisible belong in school......more

Goodreads review by Amina on December 01, 2024

✰ 3.75 stars ✰ ​“Even though we’d always had this fear in the back of our minds, I didn’t think it was actually going to come true. Deportation always seemed like something that happened to other people… not us.​” ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎How painfully tragic that the proposed Mexican wall is not......more

Goodreads review by Celia on February 19, 2021

Thank you the NOVL for the arc. It was back in 2019 when ICE arrested almost 700 people and left their children without anyone to take care of them. They came out of school, wondering where their parents were. I always wondered if they got somewhere safe; if someone they knew was taking care of them......more


Quotes

"Indivisible is a powerful story about family, friendship, and home. In a world divided by so many labels, this story is a reminder that there are no boundaries for love. It shines a light on the difficult choices people make for their family and community, and reminds us that each family is a little world. Mateo, Sophie, and their parents are now part of my heart."—Yamile Saied Méndez, author of Pura Belpré Inaugural YA Award winner Furia

"Indivisible is a deeply moving tribute to those caught between two worlds in the immigration crisis in America - a potent reminder that no human being is illegal, and that hundreds of thousands of children in this situation are forced to grow up too quickly. Although this is fiction, it’s far too real." —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways

“As heart-wrenching a tale as it is, Indivisible is also a heartening tribute to the power and endurance of familial love." —Adi Alsaid, author of Let's Get Lost and North of Happy

"Indivisible is a heartbreakingly poignant and timely coming-of-age story of the human cost of a morally bankrupt immigration policy. This book is an unforgettable chronicle of the fiercest, indomitable love and devotion."—Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King

"Both a gripping, harrowing story about an American tragedy and a moving portrait of the bonds of family and unexpected community, Indivisible somehow never loses its humor, its humanity or its hope."—Kelly Loy Gilbert, author of Stonewall Honor Book Picture Us In the Light

"Daniel Aleman is a fearless writer who never shies away from the complexity of his premise, yet gives Mateo such agency and drive, you never lose hope as a reader. A total miracle of a book."—Adam Sass, author of Surrender Your Sons

“In his moving debut novel, Daniel Aleman skillfully paints a story of how injustice rips us apart, friendships and family gathers our broken pieces, and hope slowly stitches us back together. Indivisible belongs on every shelf.”—Julian Winters, award-winning author of Running With Lions

"Indivisible is an intimate and emotional portrait of a family trying to survive under the threat of deportation, with a deeply sensitive and resilient narrator at its center. It’s a powerful story of finding strength: strength to hold a family together as their worst fear becomes reality, and strength to learn who you are, what you want and the person you hope to become. At times heartbreaking, ultimately uplifting, this book is a poignant story we need."—Julia Drake, author of The Last True Poets of the Sea

“Stellar, clear and emotional, realistic and suspenseful. The story is complex and heart-wrenching, yet full of hope and familial love.”—Booklist

"Heart-wrenching.... An ode to the children of migrants."—Kirkus Reviews