Javier is nine years old, can't tie his shoes, and dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in the United States.
To make his dream come true, he must take a three-thousand-mile journey alone, from his hometown in El Salvador, crossing Guatemala, Mexico and the Sonoran Desert to reach Arizona. No papers - at least no real ones. Only a group of travelling strangers and one hired 'coyote' to lead them to safety. It's supposed to last two short weeks.
It takes seven. In limbo, between life and death, Javier learns what people will do to survive - and what they will forfeit to save someone else. This is a memoir of perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns and arrests. But it is also a story of trying tacos for the first time, of who passes you their water jug in the scorching heat, and of longing, more than anything, to be in your mother's arms.
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