Clara is a recently divorced mother who’s just been laid off from her bank job. She owes alimony to her musician ex-husband, and her father isn’t taking care of himself after the death of Clara’s mother. There’s a lot on her plate, but at least she has her pending citizenship—and a trip to Paris with her daughter, Stella, once her passport comes through—to look forward to.

Instead, by trying to do the right thing, Clara, who came to the U.S. from an unnamed Latin American country as a baby with her parents, is facing deportation. Lest you think Sandra Delgado’s Hundreds and Hundreds of Stars is a response solely to the Trump administration’s recent attacks on migrant communities (or anyone Immigration and Customs Enforcement decides might be a migrant based on skin color), it’s worth no

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