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By the lake of sleeping children : the secret life of the Mexican Border / Luis Alberto Urrea ; photographs by John Lueders-Booth

By:

Urrea, Luis Alberto, (1955-)

Contributor(s):

Lueders-Booth, John, (, 1935-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Anchor Books/ Doubleday , c1996Description: 187 p. : Illus. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780385484190

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS 306.0972 URR

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 306.0972 URR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		027328

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.

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