The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

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NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL OF EXCELLENCE

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.An Amazon Best Book of February 2018:</strong > These days, mention of “the Border” stirs both imagination and emotion, what you see and feel depending on how you perceive the world. But how many of us understand this real-world interzone where actual borders shift and bleed, and hard scenes of death, drug smuggling, and human suffering unfold daily? The son of a park ranger, Francisco Cantú grew up in the southwest. When he joined the Border Patrol, he became witness to the stark realities of the desert, where the obligations of his job weighed heavy against his sense of humanity. Dark material for sure, but Cantú is a good no-nonsense writer, and his direct, stoic prose makes The Line Becomes a River a weighty and timely document on one of our most divisive arguments. –Jon Foro, Amazon Book Review

中文：

书名：线路成河：来自边境的调度

被评为2018年度十大最佳图书 NPR新闻和《华盛顿邮报》
安德鲁·卡内基卓越奖章入围

那一瞬间 New York Times 一本畅销书，一本必读的书，适合那些认为修筑一堵墙就能解决一切问题的人。 –Esquire

对于弗朗西斯科·坎托来说，边境是血脉相连的：他的母亲是一名公园护林员，父亲是墨西哥移民，她在西南部的灌木丛中把他抚养长大。为了了解他所热爱的风景的残酷现实，坎图加入了边境巡逻队。他和他的伙伴们学会了在烈日下和寒冷的夜晚追踪其他人类。他们把死者拖进来，把他们发现还活着的人送到拘留所。越来越多的人意识到他参与了一项不人道的事业，这让他感到困扰，他放弃了巡逻队，转而过平民生活。但是，当一位移民朋友去墨西哥探望垂死的母亲，再也没有回来时，坎图发现边境已经和他一起迁移了，现在他必须知道这条线的两边造成了多大程度的暴力。2018年2月亚马逊畅销书：&lt；/strong&gt；这些天，提到《边界》会激起你的想象力和情感，你的所见所感取决于你对世界的看法。但是，我们中有多少人了解这个真实世界的中间地带，在那里，实际的边界发生了变化和流血，死亡、毒品走私和人类苦难的艰难场景每天都在上演？弗朗西斯科·坎托是一名公园护林员的儿子，在西南部长大。当他加入边境巡逻队时，他成为了沙漠严酷现实的见证者，在那里，他的工作职责与他的人道意识相去甚远。当然是黑暗的素材，但坎特是一个优秀的严肃作家，他直截了当、坚忍的散文使 一条线变成一条河 这是一份关于我们最具分歧的论点之一的重要而及时的文件。 &#8211；Jon Foro，亚马逊书评