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January 2007
On Sale: January 2, 2007
336 pages ISBN: 0812971787 EAN: 9780812971781 Kindle: B000N2HCLU Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
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 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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