Solito, Solita

Fifteen young refugees from Central America tell their own stories in a collection of oral histories from Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman. Each explains why they fled, what happened on the dangerous trip through Mexico and how they crossed the border; some also describe struggling to survive in the United States. Adrián, from Guatemala City, saw his mother shot dead, refused to join a gang, rode cargo trains across Mexico and was put in ICE detention on his eighteenth birthday. Rosa, a Salvadoran mother, fled with her daughter after death squads threatened the family. Some accounts include reunions with parents.

Emma Watson included it among the books read by Our Shared Shelf, her book club.