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"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...
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©2006
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xxv, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
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Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....
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2022.
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xix, 311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen-- A unique collection of 44 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers--including award-winning writers, artists, and activists--that illuminate what it is like living undocumented today. In the overheated debate about immigration, we often lose sight of the humanity at the heart of this complex issue. The immigrants and refugees living precariously...
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2023.
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xx, 343 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Una colección única de ensayos disruptivos, poemas y arte gráfico de cuarenta y un migrantes, refugiados y Dreamers -- incluidos escritores galardonados, artistas y activistas -- que arrojan luz sobre lo que hoy en día significa vivir como indocumentado.
"Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen. A unique collection of 44 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers--including award-winning...
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