SOLITO A Memoir by Javier Zamora touched me as no other book has since THE TRANSLATOR by Daoud Hari.
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!
