[bksvol-discuss] Enrique's Journey
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:13:32 -0800 (PST)
I thought Amber's summary sounded familiar--thenwhen I
read to the bottom I realized that I had followed
Enrique's journey in the L.A. Times. It deserved the
awards it received. As I recall there were
photographs. Does the book have them? A moving storyy.
G.Cindy
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> Oh, that one sounds really good.
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> From: "Amber Wallenstein" <amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 12:55 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] wish list book submitted
>
>
> I have just submitted Enrique's Journey by "Sonia
> Nazario.
>
> In this astonishing true story, award-winning
> journalist Sonia Nazario
> recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy
> who braves unimaginable
> hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United
> States.
> When Enrique is five years old, his mother,
> Lourdes, too poor to feed her
> children, leaves Honduras to work in the United
> States. The move allows her
> to send money back home to Enrique so he can eat
> better and go to school
> past the third grade.
> Lourdes promises Enrique she will return quickly.
> But she struggles in
> America. Years pass. He begs for his mother to come
> back. Without her, he
> becomes lonely and troubled. When she calls, Lourdes
> tells him to be
> patient. Enrique despairs of ever seeing her again.
> After eleven years
> apart, he decides he will go find her.
> Enrique sets off alone from Tegucigalpa with
> little more than a slip of
> paper with his mother's North Carolina telephone
> number on it. Without
> money, he will make the dangerous and illegal trek
> up the length of Mexico
> the only way he can-clinging to the sides and tops
> of freight trains.
> With gritty determination and a deep longing to
> be by his mother's side,
> Enrique travels through hostile, unknown worlds.
> Each step of the way
> through Mexico, he and other migrants, many of them
> children, are hunted
> like animals. Gangsters control the tops of the
> trains. Bandits rob and kill
> migrants up and down the tracks. Corrupt cops all
> along the route are out to
> fleece and deport them. To evade Mexican police and
> immigration
> authorities, they must jump onto and off the
> moving boxcars they call El
> Tren de la Muerte-The Train of Death. Enrique pushes
> forward using his wit,
> courage, and hope-and the kindness of strangers. It
> is an epic journey, one
> thousands of immigrant children make each year to
> find their mothers in the
> United States.
> Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper
> series that won two Pulitzer
> Prizes, one for feature writing and another for
> feature photography,
> Enrique's Journey is the timeless story of
> families torn apart, the
> yearning to be together again, and a boy who will
> risk his life to find the
> mother he loves.
>
>
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> I have accepted a seat in the House of
> Representatives, and thereby have
> consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the
> ruin of our children. I
> give
> you this warning that you may prepare your mind for
> your fate.
> John Adams
> E-Mail: amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx
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>
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