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Join us for a conversation with Javier Zamora, author of the 2025 Omaha Reads book, "Solito,” followed by a Q & A session with the audience. Copies of "Solito" will be available for purchase and signing. Registration is highly encouraged but not required, opens at 9 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 15.
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Metro Community College South Omaha CAM Room 120
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Parking is free on the north side of the MCC South Omaha Campus building.
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https://omaha.bibliocommons.com/events/685c61d2d234473d0022842d
═══════ “Solito” - Get the ebook or audiobook, place a hold on the book, or save for later ═══════
https://omaha.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S60C2138581
All Omaha Public Library locations are wheelchair accessible. Need sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistance for this event? Please email Nancy Novotny at [email protected] to request accommodation. Requests must be made at least five business days before the activity or event.
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Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers.
Traveling alone except for a group of strangers and a "coyote" hired to lead them to safety, Javier's trip is supposed to last two short weeks. At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents' arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.
A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito not only provides an immediate and intimate account of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier's story, but it's also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.
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Javier 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.
“Unaccompanied” - Place a hold or save for later: https://omaha.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S60C1864490
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