This means relating the various biographies of the “walkers” themselves and discovering what drove them north, from the desire for a new life to a season’s work in the orange groves to a job putting a new roof on a house. American Book Award–winner Urrea ( Wandering Time, 1999, etc.) tells this grim story wonderfully like the Border Patrol’s trackers, he cuts back and forth, looking for signs, following tracks wherever they might lead. More than half would die, turned to cinder in the sun-blasted desert of southern Arizona. The rueful, fate-wracked tale of 26 men who tried to cross into the US from Mexico but chose the wrong time, place, and guide.
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