SOLITO A Memoir by Javier Zamora touched me as no other book has since THE TRANSLATOR by Daoud Hari.
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| From El Salvador to Guatemala to Mexico to the Sonoran Desert to La USA. |
Zamora’s retelling of his unimaginably horrific migration journey to the United States as a nine-year-old exposes heroes and villains. I include myself as a villain - an unaware and self-absorbed bystander.
Read it to relive your own sources of despair and courage.
His writing brought to the surface a painful experience of being bullied and uprooted at the age of 8. It opened my wound from a devastating encounter with US Customs at an airport in Hawaii. Still, my frightening experiences while traveling alone in India and Italy were trivial beside Javier's life-threatening dangers.
Read it to expand your compassion for coyotes, all immigrants, and Dreamers.
Read it!
