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

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

Luis Alberto Urrea

208 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction sociology emotional reflective slow-paced
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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, U...

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