Contemporary fiction, based on a true story New
Bring Them Home
One Family. One Decision. One Nation’s Conscience.
One family. One decision. One nation’s conscience.
About the book
Bring Them Home is a novel based on a true story. It traces the human cost of immigration enforcement through the life of one American teenager, and the ripple effects his removal sets in motion.
Mateo García is eighteen, a high school graduate, a church kid, and a son shaped by Indiana winters and Midwestern community. He is American in every way that matters, except on paper. When immigration authorities arrive at his home looking for someone they do not find, Mateo is taken instead: taken from his family, moved through detention centers, and finally deported to a country he does not remember.
What follows is not only Mateo’s struggle to survive in an unfamiliar land, but the awakening of a community that refuses to let him disappear. As pastors, teenagers, families and unexpected allies search for ways to help, the story widens, moving from small-town churches to federal detention centers, from Guatemala’s countryside to the quiet rooms where national decisions are made.
Written with restraint, compassion and moral clarity, the novel asks questions that defy easy answers. What does justice require when the law is applied without mercy? What responsibility does a nation bear for those raised within its borders? And when the rules no longer work cleanly, what must guide those who hold power?
This is not a political argument. It is a human story.
