D. Esperanza is 14 years old. After traveling with his cousins from Honduras, he is held in the horrors of U.S. detention in Texas. For five months, while there, D. kept a journal of poems, drawings. It’s his memory of survival. Months later, Gerardo Iván Morales found the journal, about to be trashed. Now, D. and Gerardo are coauthors of “Detained,” a book based on D.’s journal. This is their story.

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