Great product!Product DescriptionAn 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 morethe definitive edition of a classic of contemporary America
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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.
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Enriques 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.??
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