By the Lake of Sleeping Children

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By the Lake of Sleeping Children

Author	: Luis Urrea
File Size	: 50,9 Mb
Publisher	: Anchor
Language	: English
Release Date	: 17 November 2010
ISBN	: 9780307773807
Pages	: 208 pages

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By the Lake of Sleeping Children by Luis Urrea Book PDF Summary

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.

By the Lake of Sleeping Children by Luis Urrea

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By the Lake of Sleeping Children by Luis Urrea

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 16 indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys of people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico

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