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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
""A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their lives crossing it. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book is an invaluable corrective."--Phil Klay 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....
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Francisco Cantú lleva la frontera en la sangre. Su madre, una guardabosques del Servicio Nacional de Parques, hija de un inmigrante mexicano, lo crió rodeado de los matorrales del suroeste. Atormentado por el paisaje de su juventud, Cantú se alistó a la Patrulla Fronteriza. Él y sus compañeros son enviados a regiones remotas atravesadas por rutas de contrabando de drogas y tráfico de personas, donde aprenden a rastrear a otros humanos bajo...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Co
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Francisco Cantú's mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Cantú joins the Border Patrol, tracking people in remote regions, hauling in the dead and delivering the living to detention. He tries not to think where the stories go from there. Plagued by nightmares, he leaves the Patrol. But when an immigrant friend visits his dying mother in Mexico and does not return, Cantú must know...
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