Solito : a memoir / Javier Zamora.
"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers and a "coyote" hired to lead them to safety, Javier's trip is supposed to last two short weeks. At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents' arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family. A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito not only provides an immediate and intimate account of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier's story, but it's also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home." --From book jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593498064
- ISBN: 0593498062
- Physical Description: 384 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022
- Copyright: ©2022
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Awards Note: | Alex Award, 2023 |
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Subject: | Zamora, Javier. Refugee children > United States. Refugee children > El Salvador. Immigrant children > United States. Immigrant children > El Salvador. |
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Covington Branch | 305.906914 Z25s 2022 (Text) | 33126020123182 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2022 April
When Zamora was nine, he traveled from El Salvador to Guatemala and Mexico, finally crossing the border into the United States to join his parents, having not seen his mother for four years and his father since he was one. What was to have been a two-week journey lasted two harrowing months. He has since become a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and published a debut poetry collection,
Copyright 2022 Library Journal.Unaccompanied , that began his exploration of how war and immigration have affected his family. Here he provides a detailed memoir of his traveling "solito"âalone, but surrounded by people who became a surrogate family.