Adult Book Group - Morning
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Join us for a lively discussion about this month's title. All are welcome.
The Morning Book Group meets on the second Monday of each month year-round. Drop-ins welcome. Copies of this month's selection can be picked up at the library's front desk.
This month we're discussing: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border by Francisco Cantú
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL OF EXCELLENCE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.
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