A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR ' Solito is my travel book of the year.' Telegraph
'Heartbreaking... A rare eye-opening rendition of the brutal reality of border-crossing.' Lea
Ypi 'If there's any justice Solito will someday be considered a classic.' Rumaan Alam
Young Javier dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in the United States.
For this to happen he must embark on a three-thousand-mile journey alone. It should last only
two weeks. But it takes seven. In limbo Javier learns what people will do to survive - and
what they will forfeit to save someone else. This is a memoir of perilous boat trips
relentless desert treks and pointed guns. But it is also a story of tasting tacos for the
first time of who passes you their water jug in the crippling heat and of longing to be in
your mother's arms.
