The Cost of the American Dream: Diary of a Homeless Soul

The American dream is defined as a "set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity, success, and upward social mobility". For many black migrants, that journey upward often tags along trauma, family separation, and humiliation. The Cost of the American Dream Diary of a Homeless Soul is a memoir about a US military woman from Haïti who struggles to find her voice, purpose, identity, and place in the world, in the midst of family dysfunction, displacement, deportation,...