- Social aspects, Crimes against, Human smuggling, Illegal aliens
The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. "Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able to achieve.--"Los Angeles Times Book Review."
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and overwhelming.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Luis Alberto Urrea
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316049283
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“Five men stumbled out of the mountain pass so sunstruck they didn't know their own names, couldn't remember where they'd come from, had forgotten how long they'd been lost.”
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