By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border by Urrea, Luis

By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385484190)

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Format: Paperback
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By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border by Urrea, Luis

By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border

$20.00
By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border by Urrea, Luis

By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists, and relief workers, fearsome coyotes, and their desperate clientele. In 16 indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys of people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico and the United States--and ignored by both. The result is a startling and memorable work of first-person reportage.

Author: Luis Urrea
ISBN-10: 0385484194
ISBN-13: 9780385484190
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1996
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.24w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/1996 pg. 1312
Publishers Weekly 09/16/1996 pg. 75
Booklist 10/15/1996 pg. 402
By Luis Urrea
By Luis Urrea
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Luis Alberto Urrea was born in Tijuana to an American mother and a Mexican father. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 1977. After working as a film extra, he joined a crew of relief workers helping the poor on the Mexican side of the border. In 1982, he went to Massachusetts, where he taught Expository Writing at Harvard. Currently, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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