you see i actually think bookman may have understated the importance of books. he failed to say that books save lives. that books offer companionship for the lonely a roadmap for the lost. a refuge for the persecuted in the darkness of undocumented life our number one priority was blending in. my father told me early and he told me often if i could learn to speak english perfectly. just like a native speaker. then i could plausibly say that i'd been born here. full and legitimate american and aroused no suspicion about my immigration status. if i could blend in and act as if i knew exactly what christmas was and what los angeles looked like. then i would fit in just like another american kid. that information that access to safety and belonging was freely available to me in one place and one place alone. in my work now as an education lawyer. i see the sanctuary that books offer to the children the rest of our society seems to have forgotten. for the children who have no adult supervision after school no means of traveling around the world. no one telling them t

sandra bookman has a preview. a cot my ex-husband in the act of molesting my daughter. that was the horrifying reality that changed the trajectory of fay yeager's life and transformed her into a kind of vigilantic determined to not let what happened to her child happened to anyone else children of the underground is a new five-part docu series that tells the story of the network jaeger built. there's no other option get in touch with a jager. she's the one that can help in the late 1980s and early 1990s faye yeagers organization helped parents and their children go into hiding after fleeing and abusive parent the underground sought to protect families when the legal system had failed to do so she protected them as if they were children. way she was trying to protect you. yes, the shell french is faye yeager's daughter and a survivor of abuse. she's featured in the docu series alongside other survivors who share their emotional stories including their disillusionment with a family court system. they call broken. we want to work on legislation to actually physically chang