The line becomes a river : dispatches from the Mexican border
Cantú, Francisco (Essayist)2019
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How does a line in the sand become a barrier that people will risk everything to cross? Francisco Cantú was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. He worked the desert along the Mexican border, at the remote crossroads of drug routes and smuggling corridors, tracking humans through blistering days and frigid nights across a vast terrain. He detains the exhausted and the parched. He hauls in the dead. He tries not to think where the stories go from there. He is descended from Mexican immigrants, so the border is in his blood. But the line he is sworn to defend is dissolving. Haunted by nightmares, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. And when an immigrant friend is caught on the wrong side of the border, Cantú faces a final confrontation with a world he believed he had escaped.
Main title:
The line becomes a river : dispatches from the Mexican border / Francisco Cantú.
Author:
Cantú, Francisco (Essayist), author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2019.
Collation:
278 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2018.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781784707057 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1943818
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