Book
The line becomes a river / Francisco Cantú.
Record details
- ISBN: 0735217718 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780735217713 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780735217713 : HRD
- ISBN: 0735217718 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780735217713
- ISBN: 0735217718
- Physical Description: 250 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | ""A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their lives crossing it. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book is an invaluable corrective."--Phil Klay 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 makes urgent and personal the violence our border wreaks on both sides of the line"-- Provided by publisher. "A former Border Patrol agent's haunting experience of an unnatural divide and the lives caught on either side, struggling to cross or to defend it"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
Available copies
- 35 of 37 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 37 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | B CANTU (Text) | 33430139861256 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Ansonia Public Library | 921 CAN (Text) | 34045120753939 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Babcock Library - Ashford | B Can (Text) | 33110140767425 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | 363.285092 CANTU, F. (Text) | 32544072488272 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | B CANTU Can (Text) | 33160142914681 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | BIO CANTU (Text) | 34030141685468 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | 921/CANTU (Text) | 34029143479458 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | B CANTU (Text) | 34000081299380 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | B CANTU (Text) | 34014138127817 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Derby Neck Library | B CANTU (Text) | 34046140388433 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
