At eight years old, Jalyll Suarez was one of them. Lost at sea for six days with his mother by his side, they faced insurmountable odds. Risking everything that matters solely based on hope, created by a whisper of a dream, and all hanging on by prayer alone is the true definition of what faith is.
Jalyll’s mother yearned for another world, apart from her own, where she along with her child could be free from the limits of her rigid family culture and the one-party Castro regime. At the turn of the 1990’s, many Cubans were desperate and fled for freedom in secrecy, taking their chances in the turbulent waters to head for the United States. Feeling confined most of her life by the circumstances around her, Jalyll’s mother was determined to escape no matter the cost as long as she and her son did it together. Yet, no one could have prepared them of what to expect as their voyage to freedom quickly unraveled to a nightmare – one through God’s grace and mercy, they survived.
Each of us reach a time in our lives where we are forced to meet ourselves on a deeper level. Eventually we all question our purpose and place in the world. What does it all mean? As we observe our lives from a bird’s eye view, we’ll see that all the experiences seem to fit together perfectly in this big puzzle that we call our lives. Few dare to venture further away to see what the picture in the puzzle is creating. This book is Jalyll daring to venture further away in an attempt to show the full picture of the puzzle, so that his mother and the world know that the risk and sacrifice his mother made out at sea with him meant absolutely everything.
