I’d heard of people being jumped into a gang before, maybe it was Rosa who told me about it. Only thing I can say is you’re allowed to fight back. Ultimately it’s their bond with each other that holds them together, in a true test of love, loss and survival. Love is waiting for all of them in LA, but pursuing a life without Lucy could mean losing her forever. Told from three points of view, the story follows Lucy down the rabbit hole, along with her mother and sister as they sacrifice dreams and happiness, friendships and futures. She befriends the wrong people, members of another gang, and every bad choice she makes drags the family into her dangerous world. When things get too heavy, and lives are at stake, the three girls head for LA seeking a better life.īut trouble always follows Lucy. They teach her to fight, to shank, to beat a person unconscious and play with guns. Lucy’s barrio friends have changed since her last visit. They run to their grandparents’ place, a trailer park mobile home in the barrio of San Jose. When they move to the city with their mother, leaving behind their family ranch and dead-beat father, Lucy unravels. Lucy and Ruth are country girls from a broken home. The members of her crew call her, Guera, Spanish for “white girl” and it doesn’t take long for her to get lost in their world of guns and drugs. KAT ROSS, best-selling author of The Midnight SeaĬARRY ME HOME is a fictional novel inspired by the true story of a teenage girl’s involvement in several Mexican gangs in San Jose and Los Angeles. This book will haunt and uplift readers long after they turn the last page.” “A riveting page-turner… Jessica Therrien broke my heart into a million pieces - and then put it back together again. Genres: Contemporary, Thriller, Young Adult

Oppression by Jessica Therrien