Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Solito by Javier Zamora

10 reviews

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

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

lisettemarie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad tense

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, and Deportation

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

celticthistle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

rayannotates's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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: Confinement, Excrement, and Deportation

100_pages_hr's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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