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!
2 comments:
Now that you've called my attention to it, I see nothing but extreme praise for this book. I'm reading some others right now but I will definitely get to this one. I just downloaded it into my Kindle (a thing to have while I am here in Mexico), so I won't forget!
I'm not familiar with either of these books, but will add them to a list to investigate at the library or purchase or give as a Christmas suggested gift. Your recommendations are worthy of note.
So grateful for the wealth of memories of our shared journeys that color my days. Thanksgiving blessings.
Lynda
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