By the Lake of Sleeping Children
1996
First Published
4.18
Average Rating
208
Number of Pages
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.
Avg Rating
4.18
Number of Ratings
690
5 STARS
44%
4 STARS
35%
3 STARS
16%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
1%
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