The Devil's Highway
By Luis Alberto Urrea
- Release Date: 2008-11-16
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Description
This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic).
In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.
Reviews
Sad but true
5By you will be pleasedI have had the fortune (or misfortune) of knowing of this story before ever knowing of this book. In fact when I purchased the book I didn’t know it is the story that John Fife, Presbyterian minister, introduced to us via a good friend, told Randall at coffee. There’s always more to a story. I recommend this book as it should give you a perspective of view of each group, birder patrol, coyote, immigrant, and just possibly an understanding.The bookie wormie
5By Raquel it'sThis is such a good book. We are reading it in English class and I first glance I thought it was gonna be a bad book but as u get into it you are so intrigued into reading more.