BOOKS
Aug 14, 2022
4 minutes
Reviews editor: Dinyar Godrej
Reviewers: Peter Whittaker, Jo Lateu, Amy Hall, Dinyar Godrej
Solito: A Memoir
by Javier Zamora
(One World Publications, ISBN 9780861544769)
In 1990, when Javier Zamora was one year old, his father escaped the bloody El Salvadorean civil war, taking the dangerous and illegal overland route into the United States. Three years later, his mother followed, leaving the boy in the care of his grandparents. When Javier was nine he received the news he had been desperate for; his parents had saved the money to pay the ‘coyotes’ – people smugglers – to get him into the United States. It was his turn to make the arduous 3,000-mile journey by bus, truck,
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