A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the a ge of nine in this moving\, page-turning memoir hailed as "the mythic jour ney of our era" (Sandra Cisneros)"A new landmark in the literature of migr ation\, and in nonfiction writ large."--Francisco CantuÌ\, author of Th e Line Becomes a River Trip. My parents started using that word about a ye ar ago--"one day\, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure." J avier Zamora's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small t own in El Salvador\, through Guatemala and Mexico\, and across the U.S. bo rder. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite wi th a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Trav eling alone amid a group of strangers and a "coyote" hired to lead them to safety\, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks. At nine years o ld\, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents' arms\, snuggling in bed between them\, and living under the same roof again. He cannot fore see the perilous boat trips\, relentless desert treks\, pointed guns\, arr ests and deceptions that await him\; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who wi ll come to encircle him like an unexpected family. A memoir as gripping as it is moving\, \;Solito \;provides an immediate and intimate acco unt not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey\, but also of th e miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments.&n bsp\;Solito \;is Javier Zamora's story\, but it's also the story of mi llions of others who had no choice but to leave home. -- From the Publishe r
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