Solito
by Javier Zamora
Nine years old. Alone. He made it.
you need to understand what the crossing costs from inside a nine-year-old body
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Zamora was nine years old when he crossed from El Salvador through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Arizona desert to reach his parents in the United States. He traveled without a parent — alone except for the strangers who became his family for two months. Solito is the memoir he wrote thirty years later, in the present tense, from inside that nine-year-old body. El Salvador's gang violence is the direct consequence of U.S. Cold War intervention and Cold War-funded deportations; Zamora is the human scale of that equation. This book will make you feel what "deterrence policy" costs a specific child crossing a specific desert with specific people who are trying, like him, to survive.
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