Reviews tagging 'Deportation'

Solito by Javier Zamora

58 reviews

fugu_chick's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Blood

anneclairebrewer's review

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

an extremely important read for all who wish to observe border politics from a humanitarian perspective. this memoir is beautifully written; often times obvious that zamora is a poet. i’m grateful he survived his trip when he was nine. immigrants make this country great and zamora is no exception. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, and Deportation

Moderate: Alcoholism

decime_gaby_611's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Una verdadera joya escondida, solito es un libro escrito en ingles, con una traducción al español tan hermosa, que cualquier latinoamericano puede identificarse con facilidad, que realidad tan dura y la narrativa desde los ojos de un  niño de 9 años lo hace dinamicoby muy interesante!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Racism, Blood, Police brutality, Abandonment, Classism, and Deportation

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Blood, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Racism, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, and War

ladylofthouse's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

5.0

Written from the perspective of a 9 year old boy expressed so well all the confusion, anxiety, embarrassment, and excitement from that age. He starts off as a normal kid playing with action figures, but is quickly forced into impossible situations where he still tries to be strong. The journey is treacherous

and the ending had me in actual tears. Also a big shout out to Chino for going above and beyond to be kind and protective.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Excrement, and Deportation

Moderate: Alcoholism and Abandonment

degger74's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Police brutality, and Deportation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racism, and Abandonment

Minor: War

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

romeostardust's review

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Deportation

kayluuuh's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Deportation

Minor: Vomit

anakins8's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A heartbreaking but necessary story about the difficulties of migration from a child’s perspective. The author does such a good job really dropping you into the story and feeling everything along with him and his group. There are some truly harrowing parts that are so difficult to imagine people going through in their journey to the United States. It is a book that everyone needs to read or understand what people go through to get to a better place. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, Abandonment, and Deportation

stacylaughs's review

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Deportation

Minor: Violence and War