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A review by leweylibrary
Solito by Javier Zamora
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 😅
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 😅
Content Warnings
Graphic: Deportation, Confinement, and Excrement