Solito: A Memoir is a memoir by Javier Zamora, published on , by Hogarth Press. [1][2] The memoir tells a story of a nine-year-old boy on his journey from a small town in El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents.
Javier Zamora's Solito is an important book that refocuses the immigration debate by writing about — and from the perspective of — the most important aspect of it: the people who leave home ...
A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.
In his new memoir, “Solito,” the poet Javier Zamora recounts his experience traveling from El Salvador to the United States, by himself, when he was a young boy.
Javier Zamora’s new book, Solito, A Memoir, has drawn the kind of attention that Cantú’s and Urrea’s volumes did. (It is already on some best-seller lists.) It is not difficult to understand why. It is a captivating, beautifully written work. But, unlike the other two books, Solito is written by a migrante, someone who walked across the desert—at the age of 9. Growing up in his ...
"Solito," by Javier Zamora, is the 2024 Reading Across Rhode Island selection, the Rhode Island Center for the Book has announced. A young poet shares the story of his migration from El Salvador to ...