BOOKS
*** Local Authors
Revised January 2025
Non-Fiction
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De Leon, 2024.
DeLeon, an anthropologist, won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction for this book. Author of The Land of Open Graves.
DeLeon, an anthropologist, won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction for this book. Author of The Land of Open Graves.
***What Side are You On?: A Tohono O'odham Life Across Borders by Michael Steven Wilson and Jose Antonio Lucero 2024
An evocative memoir interspersed with political, historical and social context.
An evocative memoir interspersed with political, historical and social context.
***The Case for Open Borders
by John Washington 2024
Washington reimagines borders, grounded in history and illustrated with stories from the front lines.
by John Washington 2024
Washington reimagines borders, grounded in history and illustrated with stories from the front lines.
***Solito
by Javier Zamora 2022
Zamora recounts his journey as a nine-year-old from El Salvador to California in the 1990's.
by Javier Zamora 2022
Zamora recounts his journey as a nine-year-old from El Salvador to California in the 1990's.
***A Stranger at My Door
by Peg Bowen 2019
Bowen, struggling with fear and compassion, challenges us to consider how we treat the stranger in our midst. Author of Land of Hard Edges.
by Peg Bowen 2019
Bowen, struggling with fear and compassion, challenges us to consider how we treat the stranger in our midst. Author of Land of Hard Edges.
***Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders by Todd Miller 2019
Miller reports deeply, empathetically and personally on micro and macro border issues. Author of Empire of Borders, Border Patrol Nation and Storming the Wall.
Miller reports deeply, empathetically and personally on micro and macro border issues. Author of Empire of Borders, Border Patrol Nation and Storming the Wall.
***The Line Becomes a River
by Francisco Cantú 2018
Cantú's experience as a Border Patrol agent reveals the complexity and the inhumanity of immigration policy in a personal way.
by Francisco Cantú 2018
Cantú's experience as a Border Patrol agent reveals the complexity and the inhumanity of immigration policy in a personal way.
Tell Me How It Ends - An Essay in Forty Questions
by Valeria Luiselli 2017
Luiselli was a volunteer and a court translator for undocumented migrant children from Central America. Her narrative non-fiction is based on the intake questionnaire.
by Valeria Luiselli 2017
Luiselli was a volunteer and a court translator for undocumented migrant children from Central America. Her narrative non-fiction is based on the intake questionnaire.
Enrique's Journey
by Sonia Nazario 2014
Nazario has revised and updated her 2006 bestseller. "Enrique is a teenager from Honduras who sets out on a journey, braving hardship and peril, to find his mother, who had no choice but to leave him when he was a child and go to the United States in search of work."
by Sonia Nazario 2014
Nazario has revised and updated her 2006 bestseller. "Enrique is a teenager from Honduras who sets out on a journey, braving hardship and peril, to find his mother, who had no choice but to leave him when he was a child and go to the United States in search of work."
The Devil's Highway: A True Story
by Luis Urrea 2005
Urrea wrote, "In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway."
by Luis Urrea 2005
Urrea wrote, "In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway."
Fiction
American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins 2020
This suspenseful novel tracks a mother and her son running for their lives from Acapulco to Southern Arizona.
by Jeanine Cummins 2020
This suspenseful novel tracks a mother and her son running for their lives from Acapulco to Southern Arizona.
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle 1995
Boyle's classic recounts middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction, all set in Southern California.
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle 1995
Boyle's classic recounts middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction, all set in Southern California.
Photography
Along the Migrant Trail - A Borderlands Portrait
by Michael Hyatt 2019 Hyatt's photographs make indelible impressions. |
Continental Divide
by Krista Schlyer 2012 Schyler presents stunning and poignant photography, interspersed with cogent writing that shows us the damage being done to the fauna and flora of the borderland by our misguided border security policies in general and the border wall in particular. |