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Solito: A Memoir [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Biography & Autobiography)
  • Author:  Zamora, Javier
  • Author:  Zamora, Javier
  • ISBN-10:  0593498062
  • ISBN-10:  0593498062
  • ISBN-13:  9780593498064
  • ISBN-13:  9780593498064
  • Publisher:  Hogarth
  • Publisher:  Hogarth
  • Pages:  400
  • Pages:  400
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2022
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2022
  • SKU:  0593498062-11-MING
  • SKU:  0593498062-11-MING
  • Item ID: 105426962
  • List Price: $28.00
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New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family.


Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • One of the New York Public Library’s Ten Best Books of the Year

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open Book Award

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I read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book.”—Emma Straub

“A riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.”—Dave Eggers

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews

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 GuatlĂS
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