The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
- ISBN-10
- 0735217726
- ISBN-13
- 9780735217720
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-02-06
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Francisco Cantú
Description
NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
By Todd Miller"In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style ...
-
Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border
By Rachel St. JohnUdell, Gilman G., ed. Passport Control Acts. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1973. Utley, Robert M. Changing Course: ... First published in 1860 by S. H. Goetzel. Walmsley, H. R. [Henry Wray]. “America's Unguarded Gateway.
-
Peace Like a River
By Leif EngerEleven-year-old Reuben shares the story of how his father, trying to raise his sons alone in 1960s Minnesota, takes their family on a quest to find Reuben's older brother, who has been charged with murder.
-
14 Miles: Building the Border Wall
By DW GibsonGibson spent those two years closely observing the work and interviewing local residents to understand how it was impacting them.
-
On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
By Daisy Pitkin"The story of two dedicated women, a labor organizer and an immigrant laundry worker, coming together to spearhead an audacious campaign to unionize one of the most dangerous industries in one of the most anti-union states-Arizona-and ...
-
Dancing Girl and the Turtle
By Karen KaoIt was a palace fit for the emperor with wide marble steps and a great hall. A grand mosaic dominated the space with its blue, green and red tiles whose colours multiplied and refracted in the mirrors all around.
-
The Nature of Desert Nature
By Gary Paul NabhanIn this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert.
-
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
By Elizabeth Miki BrinaClear-eyed and profoundly humane, Speak, Okinawa is a startling accomplishment—a heartfelt exploration of identity, inheritance, forgiveness, and what it means to be an American.
-
The Femicide Machine
By Sergio González RodríguezThe Femicide Machine probes the anarchic confluence of global capital with corrupt national politics and displaced, transient labor, and introduces the work of one of Mexico's most eminent writers to American readers.
-
Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America
By Jonathan Freedman, Steven MayersIn an era of fear, xenophobia, and outright lies, these stories amplify the compelling voices of migrant youth. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment, bravery and resilience, hypocrisy and hope?