Full name: Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens

Author: Ted Conover Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780394755182 0394755189

conover is a serious badass. plain and simple. he heads down to mexico, joins up with a group of pollos who, led by a coyote, sneaks through the desert for two days, crosses the border (gets beat up, tortured, and robbed along the way), spends a season picking fruit with his new amigos and then all of 'em knock around the country looking for work before heading back down to mexico. this is a terrific book. gonna pick up New Jack (conover becomes a guard at Sing Sing!) and White Out (a taxi driver in aspen) next... Similar books: The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea Crossing Over by Ruben Martinez By the Lake of Sleeping Children by Luis Alberto Urrea Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream by Sam Quinones The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu Across the Wire by Luis Alberto Urrea Just Like Us by Helen Thorpe Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario The Weight of Shadows by Jose Orduna Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli