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Author Cantú, Francisco (Essayist), author

Title The line becomes a river : dispatches from the border / Francisco Cantú
Edition First Riverhead trade paperback edition
Published New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2019
©2018

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Description 278 pages ; 21 cm
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
"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."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Subtitle from cover
Includes author's note
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [272]-276)
Subject Cantú, Francisco (Essayist)
SUBJECT Cantú, Francisco (Essayist) fast (OCoLC)fst01990635
Subject U.S. Border Patrol -- Officials and employees -- Biography
SUBJECT U.S. Border Patrol. fast (OCoLC)fst01800126
Subject Noncitizens -- Mexican-American Border Region
Border security -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region
Border security -- Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Employees.
Noncitizens.
SUBJECT Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration
Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Illegal immigration -- Mexican-American Border Region
Illegal immigration.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780735217737
0735217734