Javier Zamora’s Solito
PORTLAND, Ore. — September 5, 2024 — Multnomah County Library is excited to announce the Everybody Reads 2025 title selection, Javier Zamora’s Solito.
Solito is an account of Zamora’s 3,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the United States when he was nine years old. He traveled by boat, bus, and foot. After a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants.
Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. When he was a year old, his father fled El Salvador, followed by his mother in 1995. At that time, Zamora was left in the care of his grandparents who raised him until he migrated to the U.S. when he was nine.
Pick up your copy of Solito from the library beginning January, and attend events surrounding the book and its themes. The final event, “An Evening with Javier Zamora” will occur on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 7:30 pm at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Tickets are available from Literary Arts.
Everybody Reads 2025, a community reading project of Multnomah County Library, is made possible by gifts to The Library Foundation with the author's appearance made possible by Literary Arts.
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