Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
 

Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border

by Luis Alberto Urrea

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. (read review)

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Reading about corporate globalization and pouring over statistics about poverty and infant mortality can make a person lose site of the human side of the story--the actual people who live through it and live with it. Luis Alberto Urrea gives brief but profound glimpses into the lives affected by "free" trade and other abominations.

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