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  • Author : Francisco Cantú
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Pages : 256 pages
  • ISBN : 0735217726
  • Rating : 4/5 from 11 reviews
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The Line Becomes a River

The Line Becomes a River
  • Author : Francisco Cantú
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 06 February 2018
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NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK 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 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.

The Line Becomes a River

The Line Becomes a River
  • Author : Francisco Cantú
  • Publisher : Arrow
  • Release : 05 February 2019
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Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019, an electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard 'Stunningly good... The best thing I've read for ages' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life Francisco Canto was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. In this extraordinary account, he describes his work in the desert along the Mexican border. He tracks humans through blistering days and frigid nights. He detains the exhausted and hauls in the dead. The line he

The Line Becomes a River

The Line Becomes a River
  • Author : Francisco Cantú
  • Publisher : Jonathan Cape
  • Release : 01 March 2018
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THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER'Stunningly good. Beautiful, smart, raw, sad, poetic and humane... It?s the best thing I?ve read for ages', James Rebanks, author of THE SHEPHERD'S LIFEHow does a line in the sand become a barrier that people will risk everything to cross?Francisco Canto was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. He worked the desert along the Mexican border, at the remote crossroads of drug routes and smuggling corridors, tracking humans through blistering days and frigid

The Line Becomes a River

The Line Becomes a River
  • Author : Francisco Cantu
  • Publisher : Large Print Press
  • Release : 24 May 2019
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NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK 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.

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  • Author : Francisco Cantú
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 10 April 2018
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  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release : 25 March 2023
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  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 06 September 2022
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this moving, page-turning memoir hailed as “the mythic journey of our era” (Sandra Cisneros) “A new landmark in the literature of migration, and in nonfiction writ large.”—Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes a River Trip. My parents started using that

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  • Author : Alexa Hagerty
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 14 March 2023
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An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration-of building something new with the pile of broken mirrors that is loss and mourning." Over the course of Guatemala's thirty-year