A decade ago, when journalist Sonia Nazario found out her housekeeper, Carmen, left four children behind in Guatemala and hadn?t seen them in 12 years, she was pretty judgmental, she told a Madison audience Thursday night.
?What kind of a lousy mother leaves her children?? Nazario wondered. It was a question that would eventually lead her on a harrowing journey. The Pulitzer Prize winner talked about her 2006 book, ?Enrique?s Journey,? before a rapt hall of 1,000 people at Union South. The nonfiction story of a Honduran boy who made eight attempts to reach the U.S. in search of his mother was this year?s pick for Go Big Read, the UW-Madison?s common-reading program, now in its third year.