The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

By Francisco Cantú

Book Overview

The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire

For Francisco Cant?, 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, Cant? 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. Cant? 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, Cant? 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735217734
• ISBN13: 9780735217737
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Amazing

Should be required reading for anyone in the usa