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Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled. After eleven years, he decided he would go find her. He set off alone, with little more than a slip of paper bearing his mother's North Carolina telephone number. Without money, he made the dangerous trek up the length of Mexico, clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains. He and other migrants, many of them children, are hunted like animals. To evade bandits and authorities, they must jump onto and off the moving boxcars they call the Train of Death. It is an epic journey, one thousands of children make each year to find their mothers in the United States.--From publisher description.

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In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. When Enrique is five years old, his mother, Lourdes, too poor to feed her children, leaves Honduras to work in the United States. The move allows her to send money back home to Enrique so he can eat better and go to school past the third grade.Lourdes promises Enrique she will return quickly. But she struggles in America. Years pass. He begs for his mother to come back. Without her, he becomes lonely and troubled. When she calls, Lourdes tells him to be patient. Enrique despairs of ever seeing her again. After eleven years apart, he decides he will go find her.Enrique sets off alone from Tegucigalpa, with little more than a slip of paper bearing his mother's North Carolina telephone number. Without money, he will make the dangerous and illegal trek up the length of Mexico the only way he can--clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains.With gritty determination and a deep longing to be by his mother's side, Enrique travels through hostile, unknown worlds. Each step of the way through Mexico, he and other migrants, many of them children, are hunted like animals. Gangsters control the tops of the trains. Bandits rob and kill migrants up and down the tracks. Corrupt cops all along the route are out to fleece and deport them. To evade Mexican police and immigration authorities, they must jump onto and off the moving boxcars they call El Tren de la Muerte--The Train of Death. Enrique pushes forward using his wit, courage, and hope--and the kindness of strangers. It is an epic journey, one thousands of immigrant children make each year to find their mothers in the United States.Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, Enrique's Journey is the timeless story of families torn apart, the yearning to be together again, and a boy who will risk his life to find the mother he loves. From the Hardcover edition.

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An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an author interview, and more—the definitive edition of a classic of contemporary America   Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, this page-turner about the power of family is a popular text in classrooms and a touchstone for communities across the country to engage in meaningful discussions about this essential American subject.    Enrique’s Journey recounts the unforgettable quest of a Honduran boy looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States. Braving unimaginable peril, often clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains, Enrique travels through hostile worlds full of thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. But he pushes forward, relying on his wit, courage, hope, and the kindness of strangers. As Isabel Allende writes: “This is a twenty-first-century Odyssey. If you are going to read only one nonfiction book this year, it has to be this one.”   Praise for Enrique ’s Journey “Magnificent . . . Enrique’s Journey is about love. It’s about family. It’s about home.” — The Washington Post Book World   “[A] searing report from the immigration frontlines . . . as harrowing as it is heartbreaking.” — People (four stars)   “Stunning . . . As an adventure narrative alone, Enrique’s Journey is a worthy read. . . . Nazario’s impressive piece of reporting [turns] the current immigration controversy from a political story into a personal one.” — Entertainment Weekly   “Gripping and harrowing . . . a story begging to be told.” — The Christian Science Monitor   “[A] prodigious feat of reporting . . . [Sonia Nazario is] amazingly thorough and intrepid.” — Newsday

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Enrique’s Journey recounts the unforgettable quest of a Honduran boy looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States. Braving unimaginable peril, often clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains, Enrique travels through hostile worlds full of thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. But he pushes forward, relying on his wit, courage, hope, and the kindness of strangers. As Isabel Allende writes: “This is a twenty-first-century Odyssey. If you are going to read only one nonfiction book this year, it has to be this one.” Now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an author interview and more, this is a classic of contemporary America.

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Named one of the best books of the year by the  washington post ,  san francisco chronicle ,  miami herald , and  san antonio express-news., named the best non-fiction book of 2014 by  the latino author ., among the most chosen books as a  freshman or common read:  nearly 100 universities, more than 20 cities and scores of high schools nationwide have adopted  enrique’s journey  as a their freshman or common read. middle schools are now using a version adapted for young readers as their common read., published in august 2013: a new version of  enrique’s journey   adapted for young readers  for the 7 th  grade on up and for reluctant readers in high school and geared to new common core standards in schools. the young adult version was published in spanish in july 2015. new york city has made the ya edition part of its classroom curriculum., published in february 2014: a  revised and updated   enrique’s journey , with a new epilogue and photos., published in eight languages., recent updates.

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We tend to think of the desperate migrants who risk death to make it into the United States as adults. In fact, thousands of children make the journey as well, only instead of seeking work, they come in search of the parents who left them behind.

The Los Angeles Times reporter Sonia Nazario humanizes these wayward children in "Enrique's Journey." This painstakingly researched book is not just the story of Enrique, a teenager from Honduras whom Nazario first wrote about in a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper series from which this book springs. It is also an anthropology of the peripatetic youth bent on braving the obstacles that stand between their home villages and the North American cities where their mothers moved in search of jobs, money and the chance to better their family's lives back home. "Enrique's Journey" explores the unintended, and largely underreported, consequences of those choices.

Desperately poor, Enrique's mother left Honduras when he was 5 years old, planning to send money back from America and promising to return quickly. Years passed. Enrique was tossed between family members' homes; he turned to sniffing glue; the memory of his mother became an obsession. After more than a decade of waiting for her, Enrique set out for the North. But reality didn't live up to his expectations. His mother's absence had created a void her presence could never fill.

Nazario begins, as Enrique did, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Using her extensive interviews with him as her map, she retraces his steps, telling the story as though she had sat beside him on each step of his journey.

It's adventure travel for masochists. "I am not a brave person," Nazario writes at the outset. And yet the risks she took to integrate herself into the world of the migrants who ride atop northbound Central American trains — "el tren de la muerte," the train of death, as one is called — suggest otherwise. Nazario and her fellow passengers fear rape, robbery and death at the hands of gangs, bandits and Mexican immigration authorities. She illustrates the horror by bringing in stories of other migrants she encountered, like Wendy, a 17-year-old raped by five gangsters, and Carlos Roberto Díaz Osorto, also 17, who lost a leg and a foot trying to jump a moving train.

Nazario also pays homage to people who have dedicated their lives to aiding migrants. There is Olga Sánchez Martínez, who cares for those who've lost limbs in train accidents; villagers in Veracruz and Oaxaca who rush the trains with packages of food and clothing; a bishop who raises money to create a migrant shelter.

A remarkable reporter, Nazario has immersed herself completely in this world, giving it depth and texture. In a church soup kitchen, "two big fans spin to a stop, so everyone can hear grace," she writes in a typically vivid description. "In the still air, the room turns hot, nearly suffocating; perspiration trickles down the migrants' faces and soaks their shirts. . . . Spoons of stew touch lips before bottoms hit the seats."

But although Nazario's reporter's instincts have served her well, the book still reads like a newspaper series. Facts, phrases and explanations occasionally echo 10 or 20 pages later, as if she were filling in readers who hadn't seen an earlier segment. The writing tends toward newspaper style: a breathtaking lead paragraph, a quick summation of what's happened so far, a series of statistics. But these stylistic flaws are generally cosmetic, and don't detract from Nazario's main argument. In the tradition of Jacob Riis, the late-19th-century photographer of immigrant life in New York City tenements, Nazario has illuminated the modern immigrant experience; with Enrique, she has given a voice and a face to these migrant children.

Nazario is critical of what she calls America's "schizophrenic" immigration policies, in which enforcement of immigration laws is weak and "labor-intensive industries" like agriculture and construction rely on cheap immigrant labor. Nothing will change, she argues, until we bolster native economies. Parents who migrate without their children and assume they can easily return to claim them are trapped by tightened border security that keeps undocumented workers stuck inside America as much as outside. This, she writes, has contributed to the dissolution of families and the rise of gangs and teen pregnancy. Enrique, like others who were left behind, is deeply resentful of his mother; in America, he continues to struggle with alcohol and substance abuse. He fights constantly with his family. "You think that filling our bellies is the same thing as love," he tells an aunt who left his cousins to work in America. And yet, when Enrique's girlfriend in Honduras gives birth to their daughter, he urges her to leave the child behind and join him in America, repeating the cycle his mother began.

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• Full Title: Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother
• When Written: 1997-2006
• Where Written: Honduras, the United States, Mexico
• When Published: 2006
• Genre: Non-fiction
• Setting: Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Chiapas, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Mexico City, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; Los Angeles, North Carolina, and Florida, United States
• Climax: The book climaxes when Enrique crosses the Rio Grande, enters the United States, and finally reunites with his mother in North Carolina. Because the book is non-fiction, there is not a specific moment that Nazario constructs which can count as the climax. Rather, it is a fast-paced account of the trials of a seventeen-year-old boy in search of his mother.
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Extra Credit for Enrique’s Journey

The real scoop. Enrique's Journey first appeared in the Los Angeles Times as a six-part series in 2002 with photographs by Don Bartletti.

Double Pulitzer. Both the author, Sonia Nazario, and the photographer, Don Bartletti received Pulitzer Prizes for their work on Enrique's Journey.