[bksvol-discuss] wish list book submitted
- From: "Amber Wallenstein" <amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:55:17 -0500
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.
Book blog:
http://community.livejournal.com/book_cuddler/
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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