By the Lake of Sleeping Children

By the Lake of Sleeping Children
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9780307773807
ISBN-13 : 0307773809
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Book Synopsis By the Lake of Sleeping Children by : Luis Urrea

Download or read book By the Lake of Sleeping Children written by Luis Urrea and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists,and relief workers, fearsome coyotes and their desperate clientele. In sixteen indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys of people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico and the United States - and ignored by both. The result is a startling and memorable work of first-person reportage.


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