The line becomes a river
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New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
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Book
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250 pages ; 22 cm
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Main Library - Adult | 363.285 Can | On Shelf | |
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Southside - Adult | 363.285 Can | Checked Out | May 15, 2024 |
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"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. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, where they 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. Cantú tries not to think where the stories go from there. Plagued by nightmares, 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 whole story. Searing and unforgettable, The Line Becomes a River makes urgent and personal the violence our border wreaks on both sides of the line"--,Provided by publisher.
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"A former Border Patrol agent's haunting experience of an unnatural divide and the lives caught on either side, struggling to cross or to defend it"--,Provided by publisher.
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LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
Border security -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Cantú, Francisco -- (Essayist)
Illegal immigration -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration.
Noncitizens -- Mexican-American Border Region.
U.S. Border Patrol -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Border security -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Cantú, Francisco -- (Essayist)
Illegal immigration -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration.
Noncitizens -- Mexican-American Border Region.
U.S. Border Patrol -- Officials and employees -- Biography.