The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26858770M
- ISBN-139780735217713
- ISBN-100735217718
- OCLC Control Number1002722414
- OCLC Control Number1038787299
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2017014247
Classifications
- LCCJV6565.C37 2018
- LCCJV6565 .C37 2018
Description
A former US Border Patrol agent's haunting exploration of his time on the Mexican border and the politics, gatekeepers, and victims on both sides of the line.
Description
"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."-- "A former Border Patrol agent's haunting experience of an unnatural divide and the lives caught on either side, struggling to cross or to defend it"--
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