By Sonia Nazario
ISBN-10: 0812971787
ISBN-13: 9780812971781
During this brilliant actual tale, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves incredible worry and peril to arrive his mom within the usa.
When Enrique is 5 years outdated, his mom, Lourdes, too bad to feed her young children, leaves Honduras to paintings within the usa. The circulation permits her to ship a reimbursement domestic to Enrique so he can consume greater and visit institution previous the 3rd grade.
Lourdes gives you Enrique she's going to go back quick. yet she struggles in the USA. Years move. He begs for his mom back. with no her, he turns into lonely and afflicted. whilst she calls, Lourdes tells him to wait and see. Enrique despairs of ever seeing her back. After 11 years aside, he comes to a decision he'll pass locate her.
Enrique units off on my own from Tegucigalpa, with little greater than a slip of paper bearing his mother’s North Carolina cell quantity. with out funds, he'll make the damaging and unlawful trek up the size of Mexico the one approach he can–clinging to the edges and tops of freight trains.
With gritty selection and a deep longing to be through his mother’s part, Enrique travels via opposed, unknown worlds. each one step of how via Mexico, he and different migrants, a lot of them kids, are hunted like animals. Gangsters regulate the tops of the trains. Bandits rob and kill migrants up and down the tracks. Corrupt law enforcement officials all alongside the path are out to fleece and deport them. To sidestep Mexican police and immigration specialists, they need to leap onto and rancid the relocating boxcars they name El Tren de los angeles Muerte–The educate of demise. Enrique pushes ahead utilizing his wit, braveness, and hope–and the kindness of strangers. it truly is an epic trip, one hundreds of thousands of immigrant young ones make every year to discover their moms within the United States.
Based at the la occasions newspaper sequence that gained Pulitzer Prizes, one for characteristic writing and one other for characteristic images, Enrique’s trip is the undying tale of households torn aside, the craving to be jointly back, and a boy who will hazard his existence to discover the mum he loves.
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