Counting Time Like People Count Stars: Poems by the Girls of Our Little Roses, San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Spencer Reece (editor)|Marie Howe (Foreword by)|Luis J. Rodriguez (author)|Richard Blanco (Afterword by)

ISBN 10: 1882688554 / ISBN 13: 9781882688555

Published by Tia Chucha Press, Los Angeles, CA, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Counting Time Like People Count Stars: Poems by the Girls of Our Little Roses, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
• Publisher: Tia Chucha Press, Los Angeles, CA
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1882688554
• ISBN 13: 9781882688555
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Over twenty-five years ago two Americans, Dr. Diana Frade and her husband, Episcopalian Bishop Leo Frade, founded Our Little Roses Home for Girls in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Until then abandoned girls were often given to prisoners since no such homes existed. Now Our Little Roses has some 60 rescued or orphaned girls in a city once considered the “murder capital of the world.” Poverty and violence―especially in the past 25 years attributed to deported Los Angeles–based gangs―has affected the lives of all in the poorest Spanish-speaking country of the hemisphere. Unaccompanied youth from Honduras were among the 100,000 refugees, which also included children and youth from El Salvador and Guatemala, arriving to the United States between 2013 and 2015. American poet and Episcopalian priest Spencer Reece spent two years at Our Little Roses teaching poetry to girls who have lost family due to poverty, violence, and disasters like Hurricane Mitch that struck Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala in 1998, resulting in 22,000 people dead or missing, 2.7 million homeless, and $6 billion in damages.

About the Author

SPENCER REECE is the author of The Clerk’s Tale and The Road to Emmaus. He is the national secretary for the Spanish Episcopal Church, Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal, and lives in Madrid, Spain.