The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

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“A should-read for any person who thinks “build a wall” is the answer to anything.” —Esquire

For Francisco Cantú, 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, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, where they discover ways to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Cantú 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, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he should know the whole story. Searing and unforgettable, The Line Becomes a River goes in the back of the headlines, making urgent and personal the violence our border wreaks on both sides of the line
An Amazon Best Book of February 2018: In this day and age, mention of “the Border” stirs both imagination and emotion, what you see and feel depending on how you perceive the world. But how many people have in mind this real-world interzone where actual borders shift and bleed, and hard scenes of death, drug smuggling, and human suffering unfold day-to-day? The son of a park ranger, Francisco Cantú grew up in the southwest. When he joined the Border Patrol, he became witness to the stark realities of the desert, where the obligations of his job weighed heavy against his sense of humanity. Dark material for sure, but Cantú is a great no-nonsense creator, and his direct, stoic prose makes The Line Becomes a River a weighty and timely document on one of our most divisive arguments. –Jon Foro, Amazon Book Review

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