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aduran037's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Deportation
Minor: War
readandfindout's review against another edition
4.25
Themes: 4 stars
Perspective: 5 stars
Graphic: Excrement, Confinement, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation, Racism, Abandonment, and Police brutality
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Alcoholism
okiecozyreader's review
5.0
This first paragraph blows your mind as you think about a nine year old boy, leaving on this “trip” from El Salvador to the United States, by himself, with a network of Coyotes.
This was all written from his point of view as a child. It seems amazing what he was able to remember, or put together from his memories and journals, because it reads like a novel. His bravery and how he trusted and stayed the course through multiple setbacks.
He shares what he did each day of this 9 week journey (and a little before that, as his family waited for instructions). We see the love of his grandfather and his found family during the trip who gave him a sense of safety and belonging.
We are so fortunate to have his story, an El Salvadoran immigrant or migrant. His success and stories are just one example of how our system doesn’t work and it is so sad he and his family went through all of this.
https://www.today.com/video/jenna-bush-hager-talks-with-javier-zamora-about-memoir-solito-147808325782
He recommends THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER by a former border patrol agent who became a friend, CHILDREN OF THE LAND by Marcelo
Hernández Castillo and BROWN NEON (and also THERE THERE by Tommy Orange and HOW TO SAY BABYLON by Safiya Sinclair).
Graphic: Deportation
celticthistle's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Deportation, Gun violence, Confinement, Excrement, and Panic attacks/disorders
thehomiemona's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Deportation, Racial slurs, and Racism
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Alcohol
Minor: Animal death
rachelschloneger's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Deportation
Minor: Alcoholism and Alcohol
kegifford's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Deportation and Abandonment
alyssatuininga's review against another edition
4.0
I always find memoirs hard to review. This one was heartbreaking and really shows how much people go through to get to the US for a better life. I found it a little long-winded at times, I really didn't need to hear about every meal and every bus trip in so much detail. I also found the recollections a little suspect for a 9-year-old kid. Overall though I am really glad that I read it.
Graphic: Deportation
fanchera's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Deportation
alexisgarcia's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Violence, Classism, Death, Deportation, Cursing, Excrement, Grief, Vomit, and Blood