The Line Becomes a River
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The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cant
NAMED A TOP 10 BOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POSTWINER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOK PRIZE IN CURENT INTEREST
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything. --Esquire For Francisco Cant , 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, Cant 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, Cant 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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780735217713 |
| ISBN 10 | 0735217718 |
| Title | The Line Becomes a River |
| Author | Francisco Cantú |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2018-02-06 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for New Mexico Book Award 2019 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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