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Map: Enrique's journey from Tegucigalpa to Nuevo Laredo -- Boy left behind -- Seeking mercy -- Facing the beast -- Gifts and faith -- On the border -- Dark river, perhaps a new life -- Girl left behind -- Mother's embrace -- Epilogue: two promises -- Afterword: immigrant nation.;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

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Author

Nazario, Sonia

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group;Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781588366023

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Science

Rating

3.81 / 5 (7,658 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14