Name: The Devil's Highway
ISBN: 9780316010801

Who It's For

Good for readers who enjoy BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Hispanic & Latino
Good for readers interested in book club

What You Get

Themes: Book Club, American, Stories.
Reading lane: Hispanic & Latino and Biography & Memoir.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company.

About This Book

This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" ( The Atlantic ). Named a Best Book of the 21st Century by Kirkus Reviews . In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's High...

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This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" ( The Atlantic ). Named a Best Book of the 21st Century by Kirkus Reviews . In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.

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