By the lake of sleeping children : the secret life of the Mexican Border
/ Luis Alberto Urrea ; photographs by John Lueders-Booth
- New York : Anchor Books/ Doubleday , c1996
- 187 p. : Illus. ; 20 cm
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.
English
9780385484190
Mexican American Border Region---Social conditions Ragpickers