Unaccompanied by Zamora, Javier
Unaccompanied by Zamora, Javier

Unaccompanied

New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito"Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."--Jamaal May"Zamora's work...
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Author: Javier Zamora
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Unaccompanied by Zamora, Javier

Unaccompanied

$41.43
Unaccompanied by Zamora, Javier

Unaccompanied

$41.43
Author: Javier Zamora
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito

"Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."--Jamaal May

"Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." --Glappitnova

Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind.

Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun."

From "Let Me Try Again"

He knew we weren't Mexican.
He must've remembered his family
coming over the border, or the border
coming over them, because he drove us
to the border and told us next time, rest
at least five days, don't trust anyone calling
themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines,
Alhambra. He knew we would try again.
And again--like everyone does.

Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.



Author: Javier Zamora
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 09/05/2017
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781556595110


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/21/2017
Booklist 09/01/2017 pg. 32

About the Author
Javier Zamora: Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley and an MFA at New York University and is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.


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