Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Solito by Javier Zamora

15 reviews

ka_cam's review

adventurous challenging informative tense fast-paced

4.75

Excellent memoir detailing the authors journey from El Salvador to the US as a 9 year old, alongside the  strangers who take him under their wings. I felt the 9 year old voice really came through in how he described everything.  Especially critical reading as asylum access is shut down driving many, including families and young kids, to cross via the desert. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Injury/Injury detail

bkutasz's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Deportation

mangofraiche's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Xenophobia, and Deportation

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Police brutality, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

lavaly_1's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking and Deportation

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

princessdana36's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This one of the very best books I have ever read. Although it was almost 400 pages, it only took me a few days to read. I couldn’t put it down. Usually I read fiction, but sometimes people’s lives read better than fiction. I am so so glad I took the time to read this book. It was life changing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Racism, Excrement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

Minor: War

readandfindout's review

emotional tense medium-paced

4.25

Style/writing: 4 stars
Themes: 4 stars
Perspective: 5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Moderate: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse

alexisgarcia's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

5.0

wow wow wow. i cannot explain my love for this book. this is such a harrowing tale and at some points i forgot it wasn’t fiction. my heart just broke for the people in the story and it got so tense at times i worried for the survival of javier that i forgot i was reading a memoir. i will never forget this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

ladypolf's review

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Deportation

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Xenophobia, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

knkoch's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

I read this for a local book club focused on race and own-voices writing on various BIPOC experiences in the US. This is such a well-made book and I’m glad it was selected. 

Javier Zamora writes here of his journey from El Salvador to the US, and as a white American whose citizenship has never been front of mind, I really needed to read this account. Zamora was born the same year I was and made this trek at age 9, so it was uncomfortably easy to think back on myself at the same age, during the same era, and attempt to place my child-self in his shoes. 

I liked that Zamora wrote from the perspective of his childhood mindset during the journey, as it fully embedded me in his experience. It must have been challenging, both in terms of the trauma he had to relive and the difficulty in recounting so much detail. He travels unaccompanied by relatives, but his relationships with the people in his group are moving and provide a sense of the adult experience, too. 

This was dramatic without exaggeration, painful, visceral, unforgettable, and yet something untold thousands of people have gone through and are still going through. Truly a book everyone (especially US citizens) should bear witness to, and the kind of account that should foster deep, human empathy for an experience too often flattened into an impersonal political conflict.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Moderate: Xenophobia, Excrement, and Sexual harassment

This is a migrant story, with brutal travels through the desert. Medical trauma/children suffering:

one leg of the journey through the desert involves near death by dehydration.

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Racism, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation