The Late Great Mexican Border

by Luis Rodríguez, Debbie Nathan, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, et al.

Book Overview

Fasten your seat belt: This book will take you on a bumpy ride through the painful human geography of the border.-Hispanic Magazin This book may be one of the best collections of border essays and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938317245
• ISBN13: 9780938317241
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

Love border culture? This is your book.

A wonderful book full of the rich flavor of the U.S.-Mexican border. Different writers bring the reader to the border through different reports about the region. Excellent book for border culture lovers. Different writers, different flavors of border culture.

Excellent!

From El Planeta Platica journal - Subtitled "Reports from a didsappearing line," this book may be one of the best collection of border essays and insights. I've heard of the Cinco Puntos Press for several years, but never came across their publications until recently. The editors have wisely chosen to include some of the best writers from the region instead of the usual hash of academics. Writers, such as Maz Aguilera-Hellweg, talk about cross-cultural childhoods. Debbie Nathan eloquently describes her city - El Paso - with free trade and cholera. The ever-present Gary Paul Nabhan documents his trek looking for night-blooming cacti. When I wasn't laughing, I was crying. How often can you really say that about a book?