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Cantú, Francisco (Essayist)
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Cantú, Francisco (Essayist)
U.S. Border Patrol -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Noncitizens -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Border security -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration.
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Cantú, Francisco (Essayist)
Cantú, Francisco (Essayist)
U.S. Border Patrol -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Noncitizens -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Border security -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration.
MARC Display
The line becomes a river : dispatches from the
border
/ Francisco Cantú.
by
Cantú, Francisco (Essayist)
Riverhead Books, 2018.
Call #:
363.285 C229L
Subjects
Cantú, Francisco (Essayist)
U
.S.
Border
Patrol
--
Officials
and
employees
--
Biography
.
Noncitizens
--
Mexican-American
Border
Region.
Border
security
--
Social aspects
--
Mexican-American
Border
Region.
Mexican-American
Border
Region
--
Emigration and immigration.
ISBN:
9780735217713 (hc.)
Description:
250 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Subtitle from cover.
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. This book makes urgent and personal the violence our
border
wreaks on both sides of the line.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Holds:
1
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Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
363.285 C229L
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