Enrique's Journey

Sonia Nazario 2006

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
refugee migration Central America family

Our Take

Nazario follows a Honduran teenager riding the tops of freight trains through Mexico to find his mother in the United States. The dangers are specific — gangs, police, the train itself — and the love driving Enrique forward is as devastating as the violence trying to stop him.

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