{"product_id":"unaccompanied-hardcover","title":"Unaccompanied - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJavier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, \u003cem\u003eUnaccompanied\u003c\/em\u003e crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and \"the thin white man let us drink from a hose \/ while pointing his shotgun.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"Let Me Try Again\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe knew we weren't Mexican.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe must've remembered his family\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ecoming over the border, or the border\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ecoming over them, because he drove us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eto the border and told us next time, rest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eat least five days, don't trust anyone calling\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethemselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlhambra. He knew we would try again.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd again―like everyone does.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJavier Zamora\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 110\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42718733140031,"sku":"9781556596063","price":45.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e21bbbac20525b16ed56d2e2f49fde3a.webp?v=1765083046","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/unaccompanied-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}