La travesía de Enrique / Sonia Nazario.

Other Titles: Enrique's journey. Spanish

Author: Nazario, Sonia.

Publisher: New York : Random House, c2006.

ISBN: 0812975804 (pbk.)
9780812975802 (pbk.)

Description: xxv, 323 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 24 cm.

Subject: Hondurans United States Biography.
Immigrant children United States Biography.
Illegal aliens United States Biography.
Hondurans United States Social conditions Case studies.
Immigrant children United States Social conditions Case studies.
Illegal aliens United States Social conditions Case studies.
Hondureños Estados Unidos Biografía. bidex
Hijos de inmigrantes Estados Unidos Biografía. bidex
Inmigrantes Estados Unidos Biografía. bidex
Extranjeros indocumentados Estados Unidos Biografía. bidex
Hondureños Estados Unidos Condiciones sociales Casos de estudio. bidex
Hijos de inmigrantes Estados Unidos Condiciones sociales Casos de estudio. bidex
Inmigrantes Estados Unidos Condiciones sociales Casos de estudio. bidex
Extranjeros indocumentados Estados Unidos Condiciones sociales Casos de estudio. bidex
Honduras Emigration and immigration Case studies.
United States Emigration and immigration Case studies.
Honduras Emigración e inmigración Casos de estudio. bidex
Estados Unidos Emigración e inmigración Casos de estudio. bidex

Contents: Mapa: La Travesia De Enrique: De Tegucigalpa A Nuevo Laredo -- El Nino Que Quedo Atras -- En Busca De Piedad -- Ante La Bestia -- Dadivas Y Fe -- En La Frontera -- Un Rio Oscuro, Quiza Una Nueva Vida -- La Nina Que Quedo Atras -- Epilogo: Mujeres, Ninos Y El Debate Sobre La Inmigracion.

Summary: 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.