A moving memoir recounting the difficult journey of a nine-year-old child dispatched by relatives in El Salvador to join his parents in southern California, written decades later. Rich in detail, convincing in recreating the world as a child sees it, and revealing of all the risks and obstacles attendant on a journey north. The narrator attempts to travel with a fake passport and is turned back, cannot emigrate legally because his parents have no legal status, is taken advantage of by supposed benefactors. A valuable addition to the collection of migration memoirs.
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