NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire 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. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners 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. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, 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 full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

Biographies & Memoirs

Cantú, Francisco

Community & Culture

Penguin Audio

Line Becomes a River Mrexp

Arts & Literature

Penguin Random House USA Ex

Uno de los diez mejores libros de 2018 según el Washington Post Nominado al premio Orwell en el Reino Unido Para Francisco Cantú, la frontera está en la sangre. Su madre, una guardabosques del Servicio Nacional de Parques, hija de un inmigrante mexicano, lo crió en los matorrales del suroeste. Atormentado por el paisaje de su juventud, Cantú se alistó a la Patrulla Fronteriza. Él y sus compañeros son enviados a regiones remotas atravesadas por rutas de contrabando de drogas y tráfico de personas, donde aprenden a rastrear a otros humanos bajo el sol abrasador y noches heladas, arrastrando muertos y entregando a los que encuentran vivos. Cantú intenta no pensar en el final de esas historias. Acosado por pesadillas, Cantú abandona la Patrulla por la vida civil. Pero cuando un amigo inmigrante viaja a México para visitar a su madre y no regresa, Cantú descubre que la frontera migró con el, y esta vez tiene que conocer toda la historia. Intenso e inolvidable, La línea se convierte en río hace que sintamos la violencia de ambos lados de nuestra frontera como algo inmediato y personal.

La línea se convierte en río. Una crónica de la frontera / The Line Becomes a River: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border (Spanish Edition)

Vintage Espanol

Riverhead Books

"A must-read for anyone who thinks "build a wall" is the answer to anything." --Esquire 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. Searing and unforgettable, The Line Becomes a River goes behind the headlines, making urgent and personal the violence our border wreaks on both sides of the line

The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border (Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction)

Thorndike Press Large Print

The Line Becomes A River

The Bodley Head, Ltd.

The Line Becomes a River (Chinese Edition)

Ma Ke Bo Luo

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