Desert America: A Journey Through Our Most Divided Landscape (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250024145)

Desert America is an uninsulated wire running through the hard-bitten, right-now, rough-edged Southwest, a land still being born. Go ahead and grab hold: first comes shock--maybe of recognition, maybe alarm--then you keep buzzing for page after electric page. You can't let go.--William deBuys, author of A Great Aridness and River of Traps

The economic boom--and the devastation left in its wake--was writ nowhere as large as on the American West. Over the past decade, the most iconic of American landscapes has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. In Desert America, a work of powerful reportage and memoir, acclaimed author Rub駭 Mart?ez explores a world of extremes: drug addiction flourishing in the shadow of some of America's richest zip codes, an exclusive Texas enclave that coexists with bloodshed on the banks of the Rio Grande, and Native Americans hunting down Mexican migrants crossing the most desolate stretch of the border.

Desert America details Martinez's own love for this most contested region and reveals that the great frontier is now in the forefront of the vast disparities that are redefining the very idea of America.

Author: Ruben Martinez
ISBN-10: 1250024145
ISBN-13: 9781250024145
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 06/25/2013
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d