Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Solito by Javier Zamora

18 reviews

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

kegifford's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.0

Heart wrenching memoir of the author's migration to the United States from El Salvador, traveling alone and undocumented at the age of nine. The story is well told, with the kind of detail and emotional depth that leave a lasting impression.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment 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

librabby's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Abandonment, Colonisation, 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

synergetic_diary's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Cursing

Minor: Abandonment