Solito: the unforgettable true story of a 9-year-old's solo migration to the U.S.

Solito. It means little, alone. Javier Zamora was just nine when he embarked upon a 3000 mile journey from his tiny village in El Salvador to the United States in hopes of being reunited with his parents who fled a few years earlier. He traveled alone, relying on the help of a coyote hired to lead him safely and a group of strangers. His expected two week journey turned into two months. The coyote leaves him and the strangers become an unexpected family as they endure one harrowing experience after another. The gripping accounts are told in the voice of Zamora's nine-year-old self. Endearing, sad, frightening along with miraculous moments and acts of kindness, Zamora's memoir reads like a novel.
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[@justing307]

Me, looking at all the interviews after finishing the book. Great book.

[@sergioruiz3935]

Same here !

[@shirleyfrederick6573]

I thank Javier Zamora for writing Solito, a book that has risen to the top of my list of favorite books. Even though I lived for several years near the Arizona/Mexican border and thought I understood what immigrants were doing and thinking, I really did not. It took Solito to fill in the blanks in my own understanding of why people risk everything to come illegally to the US, what they expect when they get here, and how difficult it is for those who make it to understand what happened along the way and how different the US is from what they expected.

[@renemedina8026]

Awesome book

[@eugheniat.2121]

Insane amount of advertising! I am quitting this video and going to listen to the Solito author elsewhere. Thank you for writing your book.