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⭐️ Presented by the Campus Community Book Project and Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
The Interprofessional Book Club returns to UC Davis Health for the 2025-2026 Campus Community Book Project. Everyone is welcome—students, faculty, staff, and community members.
Memoirist and poet Javier Zamora shares the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at only nine years old. Accompanied only by strangers and a hired “coyote,” he left his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with his mother and father in the United States. The three-thousand mile journey is supposed to last two weeks, but after their guide abandons them in Oaxaca, it stretches into two life-altering months spent among strangers turned guardians as they travel from El Salvador to Guatemala and to Mexico before arriving in the United States.
Narrated by his nine-year-old self, Zamora’s memoir, Solito, provides an intimate account of his near-impossible journey and the unexpected moments of kindness, love, and joy scattered across perilous boat trips, desert treks, arrests, and betrayals.
Jann Murray-García, clinical professor emerita, and Erik Fernández y García, professor of clinical pediatrics, together lead this year’s Interprofessional Book Club at UC Davis Health.
This session is presented in a three-part series of book discussions. Learn more and register using the links below:
Session 1 – Friday, December 12, 2025, 12-1:30pm