Francisco Cantú
Autor von The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
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Review of the Penguin Audio (February 6, 2018) narrated by the author and released simultaneously with the hardcover & eBook.
The author, a third generation son of Mexican immigrants, Francisco Cantú narrates his own memoir of his work on the American Border Patrol with his eventually disillusionment. This is followed by a more personal individual story where a friend of his who had been in the U.S. illegally for 30 years, went back to Mexico for his mother's funeral and then was caught several times as he attempted to re-enter the U.S. often through border crossing 'coyote's. The overall feeling is one of sadness and desperation and a seemingly insolvable situation. The more the U.S. strengthens and enforces the border, the more the crossings become the domain of criminal gangs.
If you do not have some familiarity with Spanish, the audiobook may not be ideal for you. Dozens of words or sentences were left untranslated. Sometimes there would be the word or sentence in Spanish, then followed immediately by its English equivalent, but that seemed rare. Many of the untranslated words were understandable in context, others you could look up. I did not know previously that "Paco" was the diminutive of "Francisco" for instance. It doesn't even look very obvious in the spelling.
I read The Line Becomes a River through the Audible Daily Deal from March 28, 2024. The title refers to the demarcation of the U.S. Mexico border as a line in the desert until it reaches the Rio Grande River in S.W. Texas.… (mehr)