“Just imagine… these people who come here on their own exist like me”

I knew that Grandpa’s cousin would have no documents when she arrived: she couldn’t enter the country. If someone interrogated us, I was supposed to keep quiet. It was unlikely that a boy my age would be taken to jail.

Dimitri en la tormenta: Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
ISBN: 978-950-07-2926-0.
First edition: October 1993.
64 pages.
Illustrations: Jorge Cuello.