Pam and Curtis brought Stacy to Jamaica because they didn’t know what else to do with her. They believed that her old-time granny would straighten her out. In Brooklyn, Stacy cut her classes often, and she was caught giving a boy a blowjob in an empty classroom.

I’m trying to remember when I first knew I was undocumented. We all were—my mother, my brother and sister too. It showed itself in our lives.