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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Álvarez, Noé.     Subjects     Álvarez, Noé.     Mexican Americans -- Biography.     Mexican Americans -- Social conditions.     Long-distance running -- North America -- Anecdotes.     Long-distance runners -- United States -- Biography.     Indians of North America -- Social conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Álvarez, Noé.       by title:      Spirit run : a 6,000...       by call number:      920 A473s     Search the Web     Álvarez, Noé.     Álvarez, Noé.     Mexican Americans -- Biography.     Mexican Americans -- Social conditions.     Long-distance running -- North America -- Anecdotes.     Long-distance runners -- United States -- Biography.     Indians of North America -- Social conditions.       MARC Display

Spirit run : a 6,000-mile marathon through North America's stolen land / Noé Álvarez. by Álvarez, Noé. Catapult, 2020. Call #: 920 A473s Subjects Álvarez, Noé.   Mexican Americans -- Biography.   Mexican Americans -- Social conditions.   Long-distance running -- North America -- Anecdotes.   Long-distance runners -- United States -- Biography.   Indians of North America -- Social conditions. ISBN:  9781948226462 (hc.) Description:  xviii, 218 p. ; 22 cm. Summary:  "Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dené, Secwépemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O'odham, Seri, Purépecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, Álvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits. He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear--dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion--but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities. Running through mountains, deserts, and cities, and through the Mexican territory his parents left behind, Álvarez forges a new relationship with the land, and with the act of running, carrying with him the knowledge of his parents' migration, and--against all odds in a society that exploits his body and rejects his spirit--the dream of a liberated future." Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 920 A473s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 920 A473s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 920 A473s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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