Description: A riveting account of one woman's struggle to survive the militarized U.S.-Mexico border and take on the U.S. immigration system.
—HÉCTOR TOBAR
Southwest Books of the Year Top Pick | Pacific Northwest Book Award Winner | Washington State Book Award Winner | Goodreads Choice Awards Semifinalist | AudioFIle Magazine Best Audio Books of 2019 | Amazon Editor’s Pick - Best Nonfiction | Shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize
LA Times “Immigrant Tales to Read and Embrace” | Esquire “50 Best Biographies of All Time” | Tucson Weekly “Favorite Books of 2019” | Santa Fe Reporter “Actually Good Books About the Borderlands” | Business Insider’s 21 ‘Most Captivating Biographies of All Time” | Oscar Villalon’s list of books to read instead of American Dirt on KQED’s The Bay