Enrique's Journey

by Sonia Nazario
(Random House)

When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. After eleven years, he set off alone, and without money, to find her. This book, based on a Pulitzer-prize winning series in the Los Angeles, chronicles his harrowing journey to be reunited with this mother, providing insight into the realities of immigration and the people who risk so much for a chance to live in the United States.