The line becomes a river

Resource Information

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Label

The line becomes a river

Statement of responsibility

Francisco Cantú

Title variation

Dispatches from the border

Creator

• Cantú, Francisco, (Essayist)

Author

• Cantú, Francisco, (Essayist)

Subject

• Cantú, Francisco, (Essayist)
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage
• Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
• Border security -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Illegal aliens -- Mexican-American Border Region
• U.S. Border Patrol -- Officials and employees -- Biography
• Autobiographies

Genre

• Biography
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 363.28/5092
• B

Index

no index present

LC call number

JV6565

LC item number

.C37 2018

Literary form

non fiction