Nazario, Sonia Enrique’s Journey, 273 pgs., Delacourte
Press, 2013, Language: G; Mature content: PG; Violence: PG.
This is a true story about a starving Honduran family,
Lourdes, the mother, Enrique the son, and Belky, the daughter. Lourdes leaves her home in
Honduras to find a job in the United States, in order to send money back to her
family, with the hope they can all come to the United States someday. She doesn’t
have papers, like many
illegal immigrants, so she pays a smuggler to help her cross
the border. She crosses by night through a rat-infested sewer. She leaves her
five-year-old son, Enrique, and her small daughter, Belky, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Enrique misses his mom
very much and makes plans to come to the USA to find her. He
tries several times before succeeding, riding on the top or sides of a train
through Mexico. The police catch him several times and send him back to Honduras.
Throughout his journey, Enrique faces gangsters, corrupted police officers, and
bandits, and is beaten so
badly he almost loses an eye, but he is very determined to
see his mother again.
This book has a lot of information about immigration and how
people live in Mexico and Central America. It teaches why people come to the United
States illegally. I think many people don’t understand this is real. While it is easy
to read and educational, I didn’t love it, because the author repeated herself a lot.
MS – ADVISABLE, HS – ESSENTIAL. Reviewer: M. Duncan, High
School Spanish
Teacher
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