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Jan 1, 1955 — —· 71 yrs

MEXICO AUTHOR · FICTION · MEXICAN AMERICANS

Luis Alberto Urrea

Also known as: Luís Alberto Urrea

20
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4.6
AVG RATING (5)
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Tijuana Municipality, Mexico
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Five men stumbled out of the mountain pass so sunstruck they didn't know their own names, couldn't remember where they'd come from, had forgotten how long they'd been lost.

— from The Devil's Highway

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#1

The Devil's Highway

4.5 (2)

The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. "Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able to achieve.--"Los Angeles Times Book Review."

#2

A world of turtles

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#3

Across the wire

5.0 (1)

This is a book of fragments, stories of moments in the lives of people along the Mexican border.

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