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By the lake of sleeping children

the secret life of the Mexican border

by Luis Alberto Urrea

1996 187 pages eng

Luis Alberto Urrea's first book, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, was a haunting and unprecedented look at what life is like for those living on the Mexican side of the border, eking out only the barest of lives not far from the white sands and coral reefs of Southern Cali…

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