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Solito : a memoir / Javier Zamora.
"When Javier Zamora was nine, he traveled unaccompanied by bus, boat, and foot from El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents. This is his memoir of that dangerous journey, a nine-week odyssey that nearly ended in calamity on multiple occasions. It's a miracle that Javier survived the crossing and a miracle that he has the talent to now tell his story so masterfully. While Solito is Javier's story, it's also the story of millions of others who have risked so much to come to this country. A memoir that reads like a novel, rooted in precise and authentic detail, Solito is destined to be a classic of the immigration experience"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593498064 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 384 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Hogarth, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Baker & Taylor
"When Javier Zamora was nine, he traveled unaccompanied by bus, boat, and foot from El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents. This is his memoir of that dangerous journey, a nine-week odyssey that nearly ended in calamity on multiple occasions. It's a miracle that Javier survived the crossing and a miracle that he has the talent to now tell his story so masterfully. While Solito is Javier's story, it's also the story of millions of others who have risked so much to come to this country. A memoir that reads like a novel, rooted in precise and authentic detail, Solito is destined to be a classic of the immigration experience"-- - Baker & Taylor
A young poet reflects on his 3,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the United States when he was nine years old, during which he was faced with perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions during two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who became an unexpected family. - Random House, Inc.
New York Times Bestseller ⢠Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today ⢠Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography ⢠Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award ⢠A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century
A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this âgripping memoirâ (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family.
Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ⢠One of the New York Public Libraryâs Ten Best Books of the Year
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open Book Award
âI read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book.ââEmma Straub
âA riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.ââDave Eggers
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews
Trip. My parents started using that word about a year agoââone day, youâll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.â
Javier Zamoraâs 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 amid a group of strangers and a âcoyoteâ hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks.
At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parentsâ 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 fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.
A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamoraâs story, but itâs also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.
