The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez

The award-winning biography of an undocumented teen mother’s struggle with US immigration: “A rich, novelistic [and] illuminating work of literature” (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times Book Review ). One of Esquire ’s 50 Best Biographies of All Time In 1987, Aida Hernandez was born in Agua Prieta, Mexico. At the time, the nearby US border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida’s mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona. By then, the border had bec