Description NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POSTSHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL OF EXCELLENCE The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks \'build a wall\' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cant , 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.
He lives in Tucson and coordinates the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program at the University of Arizona..
His writing and translations have been featured in The New York Times, Best American Essays, Harper\'s, and Guernica, as well as on This American Life.
A former Fulbright fellow, he is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a 2017 Whiting Award, and a 2018 Art for Justice fellowship.
About the author Francisco Cant was an agent for the United States Border Patrol from 2008 to 2012, working in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cant discovers that the Border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.
Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life.
They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive.
He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights.
Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cant joins the Border Patrol.
Description NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POSTSHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL OF EXCELLENCE The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks \'build a wall\' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cant , 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
