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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

Francisco Cantú

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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

The Line Becomes a River won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Current Interest and was a New York Times bestseller. 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.

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Publisher
Penguin
Year
2018
ISBN-13
9780735217720
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
US-Mexico borderImmigration enforcementBorder Patrol

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