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By the Lake of Sleeping Children

by Luis Urrea
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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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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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  • Release date: November 17, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9780307773807
  • Release date: November 17, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9780307773807
  • File size: 3286 KB
  • Release date: November 17, 2010
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Multi-Cultural Politics Sociology Nonfiction

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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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Multi-Cultural Politics Sociology Nonfiction