The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border Contemporary Literature & Fiction In this new book

In this new book

Mourning her own mother's recent suicide

nothing beats using the media to create the visibility

brown lives—don’t matter

Bursting with practical ideas and inspirational images

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border Contemporary Literature & Fiction In this new bookFor Francisco Cant, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrub lands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cant joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, where they learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to