“Solito”: Salvadoran Writer Javier Zamora Details His Solo 4,000-Mile Journey to U.S. at Age 9

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We speak with Salvadoran poet and writer Javier Zamora, whose best-selling memoir, _Solito,_ details his odyssey as a 9-year-old child traveling unaccompanied through Guatemala, Mexico and eventually through the Sonoran Desert, before he makes it to Arizona and reunites with his parents with the aid of other migrants. “We’re all just human beings trying to have a chance at a better life,” says Zamora about his work humanizing the people caught in the migrant crisis.

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