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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.
Random House
February 2006
320 pages ISBN: 1400062055 Hardcover
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Contemporary
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 bearing his mother�s North Carolina
telephone number. 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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