By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border

by Luis Alberto Urrea and John Lueders-Booth

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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 16 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.
  • ISBN10 0385484194
  • ISBN13 9780385484190
  • Publish Date 1 September 1996
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Anchor Books