The Devil's Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea

The Devil's Highway

By Luis Alberto Urrea

  • Release Date: 2008-11-16
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4
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From 160 Ratings

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

    5
    By you will be pleased
    I 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

    5
    By Raquel it's
    This 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.