Sixteen-year-old Sara has lived her entire life in the shadow of a crossing she cannot remember and a mother she never knew. Born as her mother died while entering the United States, Sara grows up haunted by questions of loss, borders, and belonging.
Now facing a terminal brain tumor, Sara refuses to let her remaining time slip away unanswered. As her body weakens, her inner world expands-into memory, metaphysics, and the possibility that death is not an ending but a threshold. Driven by visions and voices she believes are her mother's, Sara reaches across time, space, and nations in search of connection.
A luminous, intimate novel about immigration, mortality, and the bonds that outlast both borders and death, this is the story of a girl racing not to survive, but to understand.
