book review

Enrique's Journey

Sonia Nazario

Personally I wasn't very fond of the book Enrique's Journey. It is about a Honduran boy, named Enrique. 11 years after his mother left him and his family he goes off to find her. All he has is a little piece off paper with her new address on it. He has a lot of things to overcome, first of all he starts out as a alcoholic then he becomes a drug addict, and worst of all to get to U.S.A from Honduras he goes on top of trains, stows away on trains. This book really showed Enrique's trek through Central and North America. It was a very descriptive book, it showed every little part of Enrique's trip. It showed all of Enrique's relative’s views on what he was doing. This book was written in a style most books aren't written in, it is written like a biography in a sense that it has quotes from Enrique and his family. Even though I wasn't thrilled about this book I did think it was smart of the author Sonia Nazario to put some Spanish because Enrique spoke Spanish so why not put that.

On a scale 1-10 I would rate this book maybe a 5 because it did have good qualities. I liked it because it was kind of cool never really knowing if Enrique would ever get rid of any of his addictions, or if he would ever find his mother, or even if when he tries to hop a train, you never know if he will land or if he would fall in the middle and die. I think it’s a real interesting story because of those reasons. I didn’t like it because I felt like because it was only about him trying to escape to America and really nothing else it kind of bored me.