Solito: A Memoir

Solito: A MemoirNew York Times Bestseller Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this gripping memoir (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. Finalist for

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or the late rapper Tupac

Essence bestselling author of Paper Chasers

author of Why Not Me

eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis was then the only person alive to tell the story of his capture and bondage--fifty years after the Atlantic human trade was outlawed in the United States

and an overall go-getter

But when tragedy strikes

The proceeds from this anthology will go to supporting the Melanin Library

2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist

there is renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought

she begins to question everything: her career choice

A novel of friendship and chosen family