| Description |
250 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
""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. 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 agent for the U.S. Border Patrol describes his upbringing as the son of a park ranger and grandson of a Mexican immigrant, who upon joining the Border Patrol encountered the violence and political rhetoric that overshadows life for both migrants and the police. |
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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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U.S. Border Patrol -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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Illegal immigration -- Mexican-American Border Region.
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| Local Subject |
Undocumented immigration -- Mexican-American Border Region.
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Noncitizens -- Mexican-American Border Region.
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Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration.
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Border security -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region.
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Cantú, Francisco (Essayist)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Note |
Other title information on jacket cover: Dispatches from the border |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Cantú, Francisco (Essayist). Line becomes a river. New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2018 9780735217720 (DLC) 2017042308 |
| ISBN |
9780735217713 (hardback) |
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0735217718 (hardback) |
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