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Author Urrea, Luis Alberto, author.

Title The devil's highway : a true story / Louis Alberto Urrea

Publication Info. New York, NY : Back Bay Books, [2014]
©2014
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2940829~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  304.873072 URR    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  304.873072 URR    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  304.873072 URR    AVAILABLE
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Description xvi, 255 pages, 24 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Note "Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, April 2004"--Title page verso
Includes index
Includes reading group guide, afterword copyright 2014
Bibliography Includes index
Contents Cutting the drag: Rules of the game -- Dead man's sign: In Veracruz ; Coyote and the chicken ; El guía ; Jesús walks among us ; In Sonoita ; Pepsi for the apocalypse ; Bad step at bluebird ; Killed by the light -- In desolation: Long walk ; Their names ; Broken promise ; Trees and the sun ; Helicopters -- Aftermath: Aftermath ; Home
Summary Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds. Only 12 men came back out
Audience 890 Lexile
Subject Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Noncitizens -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.
Genre Creative nonfiction.
ISBN 9780316010801 (pbk)
0316010804 (pbk)
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