Paperback, 272 pages
English language
Published March 31, 2014 by Little Brown and Company.
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From the author of Across the Wire comes "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic)
Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds. Only 12 men came back out.
From the author of Across the Wire comes "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic)
Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds. Only 12 men came back out.
Subjects
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
- Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
- Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region
- Illegal immigration -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.