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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 09/01/1996
ISBN: 9780385484190
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.24w x 0.56d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/01/1996 pg. 1312
Publishers Weekly 09/16/1996 pg. 75
Booklist 10/15/1996 pg. 402