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midnightverde's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This was such a special book. Reading Javier’s experience of crossing the border was moving. I have children, including a 9 year old, so it was especially powerful to think about what it would feel like as a parent and how horrifying it must have been for his family. There are a lot of negative opinions about immigration and border crossings and I wish that more people were reading memoirs and learning about the history that has created this issue in the first place.

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rosi2892's review

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dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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mangofraiche's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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melflo's review

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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ajenkies4's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

I'm going to be processing this book for a long time. It's beautiful, it's vivid, it's heartbreaking, it's hopeful. It's a deeply personal perspective on a complex issue. Just wow.

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lavaly_1's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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erinmcav's review

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emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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stellahadz's review against another edition

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inspiring sad slow-paced

4.5

This is one of the best-written, most powerful memoirs I've ever read. Zamora shares the painful details of what he endured on his journey along with his "second family," the core group of people he traveled with, but he also talks about the jokes they told, the nicknames they called each other, and the food they enjoyed together. This makes the story feel even realer and adds an extra emotional punch to the sad parts; when he talks about wanting to cuddle with his parents, feels shy about changing clothes in front of people, or reminisces about his favorite cartoons, it's a sobering reminder that he's just a kid, and already he's going through things that most people will never have to. The beginning of the story had me completely hooked; I absolutely loved hearing how he spoke about his grandparents and his aunt, the relatives he grew up with in El Salvador. I listened to the audiobook version, which I highly recommend.

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