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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     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:      LP 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. Thorndike Press, 2020. Call #: LP 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:  9781432880965 (large print hc.) Edition:  Large print ed. Description:  275 p. (large print) ; 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 Due Date   Home Delivery - HN Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 920 A473s Adult books Checked out Aug 15, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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