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Solito by Javier Zamora

16 reviews

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

knkoch's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

I read this for a local book club focused on race and own-voices writing on various BIPOC experiences in the US. This is such a well-made book and I’m glad it was selected. 

Javier Zamora writes here of his journey from El Salvador to the US, and as a white American whose citizenship has never been front of mind, I really needed to read this account. Zamora was born the same year I was and made this trek at age 9, so it was uncomfortably easy to think back on myself at the same age, during the same era, and attempt to place my child-self in his shoes. 

I liked that Zamora wrote from the perspective of his childhood mindset during the journey, as it fully embedded me in his experience. It must have been challenging, both in terms of the trauma he had to relive and the difficulty in recounting so much detail. He travels unaccompanied by relatives, but his relationships with the people in his group are moving and provide a sense of the adult experience, too. 

This was dramatic without exaggeration, painful, visceral, unforgettable, and yet something untold thousands of people have gone through and are still going through. Truly a book everyone (especially US citizens) should bear witness to, and the kind of account that should foster deep, human empathy for an experience too often flattened into an impersonal political conflict.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Moderate: Xenophobia, Excrement, and Sexual harassment

This is a migrant story, with brutal travels through the desert. Medical trauma/children suffering:

one leg of the journey through the desert involves near death by dehydration.

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

lettuce_read's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Excrement, Vomit, and Deportation

Moderate: Body shaming

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