Tunnel Kids

by Lawrence J. Taylor and Maeve Hickey

Winner of the Southwest Book Award

Beneath the streets of the U.S.-Mexico border, children are coming of age. They have come from all over Mexico to find shelter and adventure in the drainage tunnels that connect the twin cities of Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales, Arizona. This book opens up the world of the tunnel kids and tells how in this murky underworld of struggling immigrants, drug dealers, and thieves, these kids have carved out...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816519269
• ISBN13: 9780816519262
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

very highly recommended

Que padre! This is a wonderful book, and well deserving the various awards it has won. The understated but beautiful narrative works so well with the penetrating photographic portraits. The writer and photographer have given these kids real voices and faces and captured very well the texture, even the sounds and smells of this place. It is all very recognizable to locals like me, and the book will help those further afield understand the human dramas of our border.

Highly recommended

- (Planeta.com Journal) The creative team behind the wonderful book The Road to Mexico return to the border to sketch an intimate portrait of street kids who work and live in the drainage tunnels that connect the cities of Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona. "It is their story of themselves and of the border, and it is our story of them -- of getting to them -- and of the border as it appeared to us through their lives."