Enrique's Journey is a non-fiction book by Sonia Nazario, about a young boy from Honduras who makes the difficult journey on foot and by train from Tegucigalpa to North Carolina, to be reunited with his mother. Sonia Nazario (born 1960) is a feature writer for the Los Angeles Times. Honduras in Spanish, República de Honduras) is a democratic republic in Central America. Tegucigalpa (teɰusiˈɰalpa ( Teguz for short is the Capital city of Honduras and is also the country's largest city North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States She left 11 years before to work in the U. S. , thinking she would be back in a year and leaving her children with relatives. All Enrique has is $57 and a telephone number.
The journey involves traveling on the tops of freight trains, through areas full of human predators as well as those who try to help. Nazario traveled the same route as Enrique after hearing the story from him. Her series of articles in the Los Angeles Times about Enrique, which form the basis for this book, won her the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing has been awarded since 1979 for a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality
The book is due to be filmed by HBO as a mini-series.
See also
External links
- "Enrique's Journey: The Boy Left Behind", beginning article in the Times series; includes maps, photos, and statistics
- Random House homepage for Enrique's Journey
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