Summary

In "The Long Walk," Lauren writes about two families who have stopped at a migrant shelter in Mexico, one from Honduras and another from El Salvador. The two groups decided to travel together and were making preparations for a very long walk north. They sorted their belongings into what they would continue to take with them and what they would mail ahead to friends at their destinations. A little girl took a fistful of hand cream and rubbed it into her soles. The women winced, knowing they would need that cream later, but let her take it anyway.

In Chapter 11, Ernesto and Raul had just made a savings plan for how they would send a thousand dollars home every month when Sofia got pregnant. Keeping the baby was the only option they considered. In El Salvador, Cesar left Maricela for...