Solito

This narration follows Javier Zamora, born in El Salvador during the civil war, as he travels thousands of miles to reunite with parents who had migrated to the United States years earlier. Told through a child’s perspective and later reassembled through memory and therapy, the story is at once intimate and expansive—full of longing, faith, terror, and the small moments of tenderness that keep a young traveler going.

Along the way, Javier learns what separation does to a child’s heart, how loneliness can sharpen awareness, and how compassion can appear in unexpected places. The journey is dangerous and uncertain, yet it is also threaded with imagination, connection, and the steady human desire to belong. In the end, the book becomes a form of healing—an act of remembering that honors both survival and those who never made it home.

• Listeners interested in migration stories told with emotional honesty and a child’s clear-eyed perspective
• Anyone who wants to understand how separation, longing, and hope shape identity—and how storytelling can support healing
• Readers drawn to memoir and poetry that explore family, courage, vulnerability, and the kindness of strangers

Javier Zamora is a Salvadoran poet and writer who migrated to the United States as a child. As an adult, he used memory work and psychotherapy to reconstruct his early journey and to tell it with the sensitivity of both the child he was and the artist he became. His work explores migration, family, belonging, fear, love, and the ways language can carry what the body remembers.