Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother

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A true story from award winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.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 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. Free Download Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother author Sonia Nazario For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This September I will be honoring Hispanic Heritage Month by reading Hispanic authored books across many genres Although the official month does not begin until September 15, I have a wide, varied lineup of books planned out and decided to get off to an early start Enrique s Journey The Story of a Boy s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario was originally a series of Los Angeles Times articles by the author over a span of five years Winning the Pulitzer for feature This September I will be honoring Hispanic Heritage Month by reading Hispanic authored books across many genres Although the official month does not begin until September 15, I have a wide, varied lineup of books planned out and decided to get off to an early start Enrique s Journey The Story of a Boy s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario was originally a series of Los Angeles Times articles by the author over a span of five years Winning the Pulitzer for feature reporting as well as additional awards for her work, Nazario details the complexity of decisions made by Central Americans when they choose to leave home for the luxuries of El Norte.One morning while preparing for work, Nazario happened to ...Stuff I already knew The US Mexico border sucks and there are lots of shady people making lots of money off of it People leave their countries and come to the US because they are dirt poor and can t support their familiesStuff I didn t already know but learned from this book The Mexico Guatemala border sounds like it s even worse than ours not necessarily in terms of how difficult it is to cross,...Book rating social relevance 5 stars, writing 1 star.Lourdes, a single mother of 2 children, makes the decision to leave her homeland of Honduras for the United States to support her family She leaves behind Belky daughter, 8 years old and Enrique son, 5 years old in the care of two different relatives Eleven years later, Enrique, sets out to find her The book details Enriques harrowing 4 month struggle to reunite with his mother The book details the perils of immigrants from trains, Book rating social relevance 5 stars, writing 1 star.Lourdes, a single mother ...Everyone in the US should read this book in order to understand the dangerous journey that Central American immigrants make in order to work in the US This is not a book that tries to persuade you to feel one way or another about immigration It is simply about one boys journey through Mexico on top of trains and the perils that surround him He has many flaws, but a deep desire to reunite with his mother who immigrated to the US when he was 6 and to send money back home to his family in Everyone in the US should read this book in order to understand the dangerous journey that Central American immigrants make in order to work in the US This is not a book t...I can t believe how gruesome, violent, and nearly hopeless the journey is from South America to America I mean, I thought all hispanic people snuck in with a few dangers The news makes it sound like getting into America is easy as pie for migrants I was so shocked to read that there s approximately a 0% chance of traveling via train and on foot without encountering horrific violence, debilitating injuries from boarding and unboarding the train, rape, robbery, and or many other nightmare I can t believe how gruesome, violent, and nearly hopeless the journey is from South America to America I mean, I thought all hispanic people snuck in with a few dangers The news makes it sound like getting into America is easy as pie for migrants I was so shocked to read that there s approximately a 0% chance of traveling via train and on foot without encountering horrific violence, debilitating injuries from boarding and unboarding the train, rape, robbery, and or many other nightmare scenarios There is NO chance someone traveling this way will avoid all of those things It doesn t ha...I learned a lot about illegal immigration from reading Sonia Nazario s Enrique s Journey Nazario, a distinguished journalist for the Los Angeles Times very much takes a features approach in her writing, emphasizing the human stories and motivations that create the statistics.It certainly makes for a compelling read Enrique s story starts in Honduras with his mother, Lourdes Lourdes cannot afford to feed and educate her children, so she leaves for el norte Her plan is to work hard, save I learned a lot about illegal immigration from...Enrique s Journey completely challenged my views on immigration and helped me identify the challenges that I face as a teacher Sonia Nazario begins the book by providing a background of information on the immigration policies of the 80 s and 90 s She then takes us to Honduras where a mother is about to leave her children so that she can come to the US and have a better life in order to provide a better life for her children As the years go by, the mother is faced with the decision to risk Enrique s Journey completely challenged my views on immigration and helped me identify the challenges that I face as a teacher Sonia Nazario begins the book by providing a background of information on the immigration policies of the 80 s and 90 s She then ...Well, I hated it.It s kind of hard to say that because of the book s subject matter It makes me feel like I m saying the subject matter wasn t important It s sort of like being in a writing class where someone writes a non fiction piece about a past trauma It s hard to talk about the problems with the piece without feeling like you re invalidating the events and the person in some way.That said, hated it It didn t have so much a narrative as it read like a list, a catalouging of atrocities Well, I hated it.It s kind of hard to say that because of the book s subject matter It makes me feel like I m saying the subject matter wasn t important It s sort of like being in a writing class where someone writes a non fiction piece about a past trauma It s hard to talk about the problems with the piece without feeling like you re invalidating the events and the person in some way.That said, hated it It didn t have so much a narrative as it read like a list, a catalouging of atrocities The only reason I read it was for a book club, and the only reason I finished it is because I downloaded the audiobook and listened to it at 2X speed on my iPod which I didn t even know was an option, and now that I do I can t figure out what use that option has o...I live in Oaxaca Mexico, and have lived in Veracruz and Chiapas, three places where refugees pass through from Central America to the north of Mexico, or to the United States These locations figure prominently in Nazario s amazing book I read it some years ago, just after I had moved to Mexico Shortly afterward I visited California and was eating in a big Mexican restaurant in SF Because I had just recently read Enrique s Journey I talked to some of the women who were cleaning off the I live in Oaxaca Mexico, and have lived in Veracruz and Chiapas, three places where refugees pass through from Central America to the north of Mexico, or to the United States These locations figure prominently in Nazario s amazing book I read it some years ago, just after I had moved to Mexico Shortly afterward I visited California and was eating in a big Mexican restaurant in SF Because I had just recently read Enrique s Journey I talked to some of the women who were cleaning off the table and found that all of them were mothers from Central America who were sending money home It gave me a big pain in my heart.More than the story of this boy s journey, a child who rode on the top of trains from Guatemala to the US border, it is the story of Sonia Nazario s heroic comm...This is not a book It s a report It s straight forward reporting and I admire her efforts to get the full experience, but the ongoing repetition of the same kind of details to make her point was overkill for the general public.

Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother
  • English
  • 13 May 2017
  • Paperback
  • 294 pages
  • 0812971787
  • Sonia Nazario
  • Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother