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DESCRIPTION:Memoirist and poet Javier Zamora’s memoir Solito provides an in
 timate account of his near-impossible journey and the unexpected moments of
  kindness\, love\, and joy scattered across perilous boat trips\, desert tr
 eks\, arrests\, and betrayals. Longlisted for the PEN America 2023 Literary
  Awards\, Solito was a New York Times bestseller and a 2023 American Book A
 ward winner. \n\nZamora has been a Stegner fellow at Stanford University an
 d a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard\, and holds fellowships from the National E
 ndowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. Zamora has also been grant
 ed fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, the Lannan Foundation
 \, the MacDowell Colony\, Macondo\, and Yaddo. His debut poetry collection 
 Unaccompanied is rooted in the indelible experiences of a nine-year-old boy
  navigating politics\, racism\, war\, and the impact of a border crossing o
 n his family. Zamora holds a BA from the University of California\, Berkele
 y\, and has earned an MFA from New York University. The recipient of the 20
 17 Narrative Prize\, the 2016 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award\, an
 d the 2020 Pushcart Prize\, Zamora has been published in Granta\, the Kenyo
 n Review\, American Poetry\, the New Republic\, the New York Times\, and Po
 etry\, among other publications. Javier Zamora lives in Tucson\, Arizona.\n
 \nCosponsored by the Park Street Corporation Speaker Series and Boston Coll
 ege Romance Languages and Literatures Department.\n\n \n\nAll Lowell Humani
 ties Series lectures are free and open to the public. Registration via Even
 tbrite is required for in-person attendance. Alternatively\, you can regist
 er for our livestream via Zoom.\n\nThe Lowell Humanities Series is sponsore
 d by the Lowell Institute\, Boston College's Institute for the Liberal Arts
 \, and the Provost's Office.
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SUMMARY:Javier Zamora: “Solito: Home\, Identity\, and the Immigrant Experie
 nce”
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 immigrant-experience
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