Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique’s Journey, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 9 at Moorpark College, 7075 Campus Road, in the campus dining room.
Enrique’s Journey, the 2010-11 One Campus One Book Selection, is about a teen who decides to pursue his mother, who emigrated to the U.S. to get work and send money home, the college reported in a media release. During the Year of Economy, Enrique’s Journey sheds light on the risk immigrants take to find a better life.
“One million people enter the United States legally each year, and another 700,000 arrive illegally, according to Nazario (Los Angeles Times), who won the Pulitizer Prize for her newspaper story on which this book is based. Here, she retraces the travel of immigrants from Central America to El None and writes brilliantly about the trials and tribulations that besiege the journey. Specifically, she focuses on a Honduran boy, Enrique, letf behind by his mother, Lourdes, who fled to the United States, like many Central American women before her, to make enough money to give her children a better life back home and ultimately return to them. ” Library Journal
A book signing follow the presentation by Nazario. For more information, send an e-mail to dscrofano@vcccd.edu
Sonia Nazario. Courtesy photo.