Solito

"Solito" is a heart-rendering memoir by Javier Zamora about his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States as a young boy.

Javier, from a small town in El Salvardor, only dreams of being reunited with his parents and eating orange sherbet in the United States. But before his dreams can be true he has to travel three thousand miles alone and with strangers. On this harrowing journey he will learn that to survive people will do anything.

 

In "Solito" Javier Zamora tells his gripping and moving memoir of how he left his aunt and grandparents in El Salvador to embark on a dangerous journey to find his mother and father who left four years ago in the USA. It is a riveting tale of perilous boat trips, brutal desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions and the amazing love and kindness he met in his fellow migrants, who like millions of others is trying to make a better life for themselves and their families.