Twelve year old Manuel decides to leave Mexico and ride the Beast in order to join his brother who entered the US a few years earlier. Along the way he is beaten, robbed, and injured but eventually he makes it. Then, a few years later he decides to go back.
I totally get where the author is coming from. Many people from Latin and Central America who are trying to get to the US go through great ordeals and trauma. But... I never really felt like I got to know Manuel as a person - it was a series of events - the worst that can happen in many cases - told in a pretty flat way.
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