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    (By Javier Zamora)

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    Author Javier Zamora
    “Book Descriptions: 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.”

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