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The best travel books for when youre stuck at home cnn travel. Braving unimaginable peril, often clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains, enrique travels through hostile worlds full of thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. Enriques mother, lourdes, struggles in honduras to support her young children, belky and enrique. Fear and fleas for a good while, i sat on the idea. Enrique s journeyrecounts the unforgettable quest of a honduran boy looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the united states. Plagued by his mothers abandonment, enrique leaves honduras and braves the difficult journey north to reunite with lourdes. Provides a human face, both beautiful and scarred, for the undocumented. For it works both ways with wonderful books and places. Enriques journey chronicles the life of a young central american boy, and his quest to reunite with a mother who left him at the age of five to find work in the united states.
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