In his memoir, Javier writes from the perspective of his nine-year-old self. "I literally almost died during each of my attempts and I have guns pointed at me multiple times," he says. He was born in a small fishing village in El Salvador in 1990 in the middle of the Civil War. His dad fled that war in 1991 when he was still one years old; his mom left when he was five months old.
At age nine, Javier Zamora embarked on a harrowing, 3000-mile immigration journey from El Salvador to the United States. More than twenty years later, he’s finally ready to revisit that period of life and what it took for him to survive such treacherous circumstances.
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