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Solito (A Read with Jenna Pick): A Memoir

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Listen to Javier Zamora in conversation about Solito on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast.

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Notes From Your Bookseller

Javier Zamora lays his soul bare on the pages of this heartrending memoir. Touching on themes of abandonment, loss, trauma, and forgiveness, Zamora’s lyrical recounting is a story as timeless as it is topical and as universal as it is uniquely his. Solito will fill your heart with sadness, anger, love in turn, but most of all with an enduring sense of irrepressible hope.

New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family.


Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Aw...

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