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Solito by Javier Zamora

10 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

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

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

ivi_reads_books's review

adventurous emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

3.25

The story is being told from the point of view of 9 year-old Javier who grows up with his grandparents because his parents emigrated to the US early in his life. The author describes the harrowing story of how he immigrated illegally to the US to be united with his parents. 

I felt for the characters and loved to see that Javier found people he could rely on while being at the mercy of coyotes. At the same time I would have preferred to hear this story from adult Javier and his point of view. The coming of age awkwardness and bathroom stories were a little much for me.

If a reader doesn't understand basic Spanish they might not get every situation or nuance as there is quite a bit of untranslated Spanish in this book.

I think it's an important story for anyone to hear to understand how terrible the cirumstances in their home countries must be to decide to get on this journey to the US not knowing if they will survive it.

Thanks to Netgalley and Hogarth for a copy of this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, and Abandonment

Minor: Bullying

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

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

simplythegirl's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

If you'd like an authentic story about an immigrant's journey crossing the border than this book is it! There are similar books out there that are all just trauma p*rn but Javier Zamora really encompasses the beauty along with the hardship that he endured on his journey. His perspective of a kid also makes the whole thing very heartwrenching cute  heartwarming and scary at the same time. There was a sense of community and a sense of loss but also victory when he reaches the USA. It's such a touching and sweet story but also very nerve-wracking and scary because of the stakes. I absolutely loved this book. This is super relatable in terms of culture for me even though I never went through what the author did the culture is what we share so that was really fun. There's also some sweet and light humor that flows pretty nicely. The book definitely explores the importance of family and what it means to be a family.  If you are not a spanish speaker I would definitely keep a piece of paper and make a key for the spanish words because they come up a lot. I'm a Spanish speaker so it wasn't something I dealt with but others may. It definitely is worth a read.

there is some cursing, violence, guns, blood, vomit, other bodily fluids, and abuse so read with caution.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Racism, Vomit, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, and Death

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

internationalreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation