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" NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &bull,#160,EAD WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY &bull,A young poet tells the inspiring story of his160 migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this160 &ldquo,ripping memoir&rdquo,(NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. 160 &ldquo,/b〉I 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. &rdquo,/b〉&mdash,mma Straub 160&ldquo, riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.&rdquo,mdash,ave EggersTrip. My parents started using that word about a year ago&mdash,ldquo,ne day, you&rsquo,l take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.&rdquo,/i〉 160 160 Javier Zamora&rsquo, adventure is a160 three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across160 the U.S. border.160 He will leave behind160 his beloved aunt and grandparents160 to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone160 amid160 a group of strangers and a &ldquo,oyote&rdquo,hired to lead them to safety, Javier160 expects his160 trip160 to160 last two short weeks. 160 At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents&rsquo,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. 160 A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides160 an immediate and intimate account160 not only160 of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also160 of160 the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier160 Zamora&rsquo,160 story, but it&rsquo, also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home."
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Biographisches: " Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990. His father fled the country when he was one, and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents&rsquo,migrations were caused by the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War. When he was nine Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. His debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied , explores the impact of the war and immigration on his family. Zamora has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 1, 2022 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, Unaccompanied , that began his exploration of how war and immigration have affected his family. Here he provides a detailed memoir of his traveling solito--alone, but surrounded by people who became a surrogate family. Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from May 23, 2022 Poet Zamora ( Unaccompanied ) presents an immensely moving story of desperation and hardship in this account of his childhood migration from El Salvador to the U.S. To reunite with his parents—who left during the Salvadoran Civil War—nine-year-old Zamora was forced to rely on the help of coyotes to get to America in 1999. But, as he relates in affecting detail, the voyage for his group was perilous and trust was a rare commodity. What was supposed to be an easy two-week trip became a two-month nightmare pocked with seedy characters, days spent locked in various hideouts before moving, and a never-ending stream of promises shattered. Between dangerous marches through the desert and being caught at the U.S. border multiple times, Zamora’s group was forced to depend on one another for survival. The surrogate family they formed offered Zamora respite from the despair, and he transforms the experience into a stirring portrait of the power of human connection. Rendering the end of their journey in a final heartbreaking scene, Zamora writes, “I can feel my heart in my stomach... I close my eyes and take a long sniff. Their sweat, the smell of loroco and masa, is faint, but it’s them.” This sheds an urgent and compassionate light on the human lives caught in an ongoing humanitarian crisis." Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: August 1, 2022 The harrowing journey of a 9-year-old Salvadoran boy through Guatemala and Mexico to rejoin his parents in the U.S. Being the child of migrants is not unusual in the small town of La Herradura, El Salvador, where Zamora's relatives regularly disappeared with the local coyote, Don Dago, to try their luck gaining entry into the U.S. When Zamora was 5, his mother left to join his father, who had left when he was 1, in America. The author opens his engaging narrative in 1999: Don Dago has agreed that the boy is ready for the trip to join his family. At the time, Zamora was living with his grandparents and aunts and excelling in school. He was overjoyed at the prospect of reuniting with his parents yet unaware of the many dangers of the arduous trek. Zamora traveled within a small, tightknit group of migrants through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. The author, now a poet who has been both a Stegner and Radcliffe fellow, meticulously re-creates his tense, traumatic journey, creating a page-turning narrative that reads like fiction. Sprinkling Spanish words and phrases throughout, Zamora fashions fully fleshed portraits of his fellow travelers--e.g., a protective mother and her daughter and a variety of men who assumed leadership responsibilities--as they navigated buses and boats, packing into a single room in motels, passing through checkpoints (not always successfully), and walking for days in the desert with little food or water. Along the way, the migrants, most of them desperately trying to reach their families in the U.S., also had to learn Mexican words and change their accents in order to remain inconspicuous and avoid the dreaded La Migra, which has helicopters. They have trucks. They have binoculars that can see in the dark. I want our own helicopter to fight against La Migra. To shoot those bad gringos making us scared. Beautifully wrought work that renders the migrant experience into a vivid, immediately accessible portrayal. COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(5): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: October 10, 2022 This wrenching, thrilling memoir by poet Zamora (Unaccompanied, 2017) looks back at the grueling and sometimes surprisingly exhilarating two months in 1999 during which Zamora, then nine years old, attempted to illegally migrate from El Salvador to the U.S. His parents had already fled for California several years earlier as a result of civil war in El Salvador,Zamora was left behind with his grandparents in a small town. When his parents raised enough money for him to be taken across the border by coyotes, Zamora set off in the company of six strangers who quickly became his surrogate family. The author writes in the present tense and sticks scrupulously to the point of view of his child self, who is as scared of using a flush toilet as of making a dangerous ocean trip on an overloaded boat, and who, though often lonely, unhappy, and in pain, also relishes the adventure of new experiences. Staying at a motel. Check. Using a fancy bathroom. Check, he thinks with satisfaction. Unlike the author and the reader, who are constantly aware of just how much danger the boy faces, the young narrator is caught up in his day-to-day activities, always thinking he will be reunited with his parents in a matter of days. Title to the contrary, the boy is not solito: he's part of a group of fellow migrants who, though they've never met him before, ensure his survival under conditions from which he almost certainly would have otherwise died. The adult writer's gratitude to these people is palpable. Readers will come away with a visceral knowledge of the ordeals faced by those who attempt to cross the border into the U.S. COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "
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