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.
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​***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.



​***The Case for Open Borders
by John Washington 2024
Washington reimagines borders, grounded in history and illustrated with stories from the front lines.
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***Solito 
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.
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​***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.



***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.


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.

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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."


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."

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.



​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.
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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.

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