Informed by years of research and banned in Arizona upon publication, Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway paints a harrowing portrait of America’s boiling border deserts and the determined migrants who attempt the crossing. So effective was Urrea’s research, in fact, that it became the first book banned in Arizona for being “satanic” and “un-American.”
“A horrendous story told with bitter skill, highlighting the whole sordid, greedy mess that attends illegal broader crossings.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy.” —The Atlantic
Heads up: detailed descriptions of death from heat and starvation, and a disturbing portrait of the human negligence, cynicism and opportunism that fuels this tragic cycle.
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