The Cost of the American Dream: Diary of a Homeless Soul : Xulon Press : 9781630502294 : 1630502294 : 01 Jan 2020 : The American dream is defined as a "set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity, success, and upward social mobility". For many black migrants, that journey upward often tags along trauma, family separation, and humiliation. The Cost of the American Dream Diary of a Homeless Soul is a memoir about a US military woman from Haïti who struggles to find her voice, purpose, identity, and place in the world, in the midst of family dysfunction, displacement, deportation, abuse, abandonment, bad relationships, and perplexity in her new country. This book, which chronicles the author's trips and deployments around the world, has been writing itself for nineteen years. The Cost of the American Dream! is the military version of Julia Roberts's Eat Pray Love. However, unlike Ms. Roberts's character, she falls in love with the wrong man in the chapter, Sin C