🚨HUGE NEWS 🚨— SOLITO, Javier Zamora’s “extraordinary,” “essential,” and “absorbing” memoir is the September Read with Jenna Pick. Jenna Bush Hager made the announcement this morning on NBC’s The Today Show. When Javier Zamora was nine he migrated unaccompanied from El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents. A journey meant to take two short weeks would turn into a nine-week odyssey. Traveling by bus, boat, and foot, alone but for a small group of strangers, Javier would be tested in ways most of us cannot imagine. Yet even more remarkable was the compassion, generosity, and love he encountered along the way. At its heart, Solito is about overcoming impossible odds to be with those you love the most. Emma Straub, author and bookseller extraordinaire, says “Solito is a stone-cold masterpiece, an absolute masterpiece. I know I used that word twice. That’s how you know I mean it.” After a decade of publishing innovative and groundbreaking fiction like Normal People by Sally Rooney and The Vegetarian by Han Kang, we are launching Hogarth’s nonfiction list with Solito. “If there’s any justice,” says Rumaan Alam. “Solito will someday be considered a classic.” As reader and editor, I love fiction and nonfiction equally, and I’m so excited to bring exceptional literary talent like Javier to our nonfiction program. Congratulations, Javier. I love Solito with all my reading heart Your nearly impossible journey to publication began in El Salvador in 1999, and I am so proud to be your editor. “It’s impossible not to feel both immersed in and changed by this extraordinary book.” –– Los Angeles Times "It’s hard to reconcile the fact that this book hasn’t always been with us. How can something so essential and fundamental to the American story not already be part of our canon?" ––San Francisco Chronicle “Zamora, a poet, recounts in absorbing detail the dangerous, weekslong journey he took from El Salvador to reunite with his parents in the United States when he was just 9.” —New York Times (one of September’s most anticipated books)