(Thu) March 14, 2024, 7:00pm — 8:30pm
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SOLITO BY JAVIER ZAMORAJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990. His father fled the country when he was one, and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents' migrations were caused by the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War. When he was nine, Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. His debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied, explores the impact of the war and immigration on his family. Zamora has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
“The magic of this book lies not only in the beguiling voice of young Javier, or the harrowing journey and immense bravery of the migrants, or in the built-in hero’s journey of this narrative. It’s hard to reconcile the fact that this book hasn’t always been with us. How can something so essential and fundamental to the American story not already be part of our canon?”
—San Francisco Chronicle“Zamora . . . recounts in absorbing detail the dangerous, weekslong journey he took from ElSalvador to reunite with his parents in the United States when he was just 9.”
—The New York Times
Contact: Deborah Lyons
