| Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border Contributor(s): Urrea, Luis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385425309 ISBN-13: 9780385425308 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 Annotation: A compelling and unprecedented look at life on the other side of the border. Despite the numbers of people crossing over to the U.S., hundreds more remain behind in abject poverty. Urrea worked closely with them and provides a compassionate and candid account of their lives. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Technology & Engineering |
| Dewey: 972.2 |
| LCCN: 92012680 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.2" W x 8.14" (0.39 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border--a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen. Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his work as a member and official translator of a crew of relief workers that provided aid to the many refugees hidden just behind the flashy tourist spots of Tijuana. His account of the struggle of these people to survive amid abject poverty, unsanitary living conditions, and the legal and political chaos that reign in the Mexican borderlands explains without a doubt the reason so many are forced to make the dangerous and illegal journey across the wire into the United States. |