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.

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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Urrea, Luis
ISBN: 9780385484190
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 8.16 x 0.56
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Year: 1996

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

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