Solito: A Memoir

**A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this moving, page-turning memoir hailed as "the mythic journey of our era" (Sandra Cisneros)****" A new landmark in the literature of migration, and in nonfiction writ large."--Francisco Cantu, author of *The Line Becomes a River****Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago --"one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure."*Javier Zamora's *adventure* is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a...