Solito by Javier Zamora (Audiobook)

From Javier Zamora comes Solito, available as a complete audiobook for Biography & Memoir listeners.

Travelingn alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks.n At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents’ arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who Javier Zamora’s adventure is a 3,000-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.

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