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I'm really not sure whether I would've liked this book if I'd read it rather than listening to it; I might not even have been able to finish it. There are frequent lists of adjectives or stark facts that would have seemed boring. But Urrea himself was the reader, and he reads in a way that makes even those parts sound almost like poetry. The exact latitude and longitude at which a particular person's body was found, for example, or the list of what he was wearing or carrying, becomes a tribute t
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Americans need to read this. The author does not stand on one side or the other of the controversy concerning illegal immigration over the Mexican border. What he does do is put a human face to all the participants, from the Border Patrol, to the coyotes, the immigrants, the local government, the citizens of both countries who live in border towns. But primary to it all is about the "walkers" and how they are dying every day in the desert as victims of a broken system.
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Dewey 304.873
HCLS-[Fair], WGRL-LS
HCLS-[Fair], WGRL-LS
Jan 28, 2011
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