Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Solito by Javier Zamora

8 reviews

lisettemarie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad tense

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deportation, Confinement, and Violence

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

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Alcoholism

celticthistle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Deportation, Gun violence, Confinement, Excrement, and Panic attacks/disorders

ladypolf's review

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Deportation

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

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

rayannotates's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Violence, Racism, Dysphoria, Deportation, Vomit, and Confinement

leweylibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring tense slow-paced

5.0

THIS is the book that someone wanting to understand what it's like to migrate from South or Central America should read rather than American Dirt.

While I do wish I would've gotten a bit more from Javier's adult perspective--that last chapter had me SOBBING--this was still such a powerful and important book. Javier, a poet, has such an incredible voice and apparently an incredible memory because holy cow remembering things with this level of detail so many years later. I also wish we would've gotten to experience more of his reunion with his parents!! That's the part that you're waiting for the whole time and then all you get are two shadows and a small reflection from 2021 on what it was like to see them. I also think I might have enjoyed the physical book more because I do not know enough Spanish for the Spanish and Spanglish parts to be very clear to me audibly 😅 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Confinement, and Excrement

100_pages_hr's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Excrement, Abandonment, Cursing, and Confinement

kshertz's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I can’t say enough good things about this book. This story is so raw and true. The journey is so brutal for such a small child. The trauma and the pain is felt on the page. This author puts it all out there and I am grateful. It allows me to share with my students what kids their age are going through and continue to go through. For some of them, they can also feel less alone reading this book. I want every teen to know this authors name and story so they can be a generation that doesn’t allow for false rhetoric to persist around those coming across fake borders. Amazing book. Have everyone you know read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Racism, Body horror, Cultural appropriation, Confinement, Abandonment, Blood, Deportation, Trafficking, and Police brutality