Format:
Book
Title:
The devil's highway : a true story / Luis Alberto Urrea.
Author:
Urrea, Luis Alberto.
Call Number:
304.873072 Urrea
Edition:
1st Back Bay pbk. ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Back Bay Books, 2005.
Description:
xvi, 255, 11 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Summary:
An account of "twenty-six men who in May 2001 attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadly region known as the Devil's Highway ... Only twelve of the men made it out."--Back cover.
Subjects:
Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Noncitizens -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Illegal immigration.
Undocumented immigrants.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.
Adult core collection.
Contents:
Cutting the drag. The rules of the game -- Dead man's sign. In Veracruz ; The coyote and the chicken ; El guía ; Jesús walks among us ; In Sonoita ; A pepsi for the apocalypse ; Bad step at bluebird ; Killed by the light -- In desolation. The long walk ; Their names ; Broken promis ; The trees and the sun ; Helicopters -- Aftermath. Aftermath ; Home.
ISBN:
9780316010801 (pbk.)
0316010804 (pbk.)