"illegaly blonde" a young luso-canadian journey

Imagine being an immigrant parent who worked hard to give the best to their kids and one day is informed by authorities that she or he has to abandon the country they came to in search for a new life to give their kids.

Imagine a teen being told that he or she has to follow their immigrant parents and begin a new life in a place that says nothing to them, taken from friends and school.

This is a reality we are all well aware of. Stories of kids and weeping parents making headlines in the media.
Nelsa Roberto, a luso-canadian writer from Toronto took the challenge to tell the story of a young girl whose family is deported to Portugal.

"illegaly blonde" is a journey every luso-canadian kid and family should acknowledge, because..."
Sometimes discovering your roots is about more than watching your real hair colour grow in ? When seventeen-year-old Lucy do Amaral comes home with bleached blonde hair she expects a major lecture and another grounding from her strict Portuguese parents. What she doesn't expect is the shocking news that her family are illegal aliens who've just been told they're being deported in less than a week. Lucy's furious at being forced to leave her boyfriend and miss prom to go live in some backwater village in a country she knows nothing about. But as Lucy discovers, intentions and reality are sometimes worlds apart -- or an ocean away..."

"illegaly blonde" published by Winnipeg Free Press is available Online. Stay tunned. More on the book and its author soon!