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Crossing Over
by Ruben Martinez

If you want to know what it feels like from Mexican village to border crossing to the long and dangerous migrants’ road through the United States, this is an excellent place to start.

Twilight on the Line
by Sebastian Rotella

One of my all-time favorite border books. One of the few books that can teach even me something new about the border.

Across the Wire
by Luis Alberto Urrea

It feels like cheating to recommend my own book, but if I’m being honest, I can’t think of another book that shows you street-level life in the poorest parts of the Mexican border.

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The Hummingbird’s Daughter

“A stunning, sumptuous, poetically charged epic. … The novel’s central narrative is about a young girl with magical powers growing up on an isolated rancho in the Sonoran Desert during the tumultuous final decades of the nineteenth century, when modern Mexico was being born. … A word-drunk, visionary reverie that constantly amazes and delights with its sense of teeming, sensual profusion.”

— Larry McCaffery,
San Diego Union-Tribune

“Brilliant. … A powerful tale that satisfies the soul. … Opening the pages of
The Hummingbird’s Daughter
is like being swept up in a whirlwind of description so sensuous that one tastes, feels, and hears the unfolding of events. … Urrea’s language is richly textured, creating a poetic fiction raised to the heights of a Gabriel García Márquez.”— Rudolfo Anaya,
Los Angeles Times

“Immensely entertaining. … An extraordinary novel. …
The Hummingbird’s Daughter
breathes with life, populated with multiple, complex, and genuinely individual characters. … At a time when so much fiction is prone to self-analysis and post-modern posturing, Urrea has accomplished that rarest of things in literature: He has created a world that stands on its own.”

— David Hellman,
San Francisco Chronicle

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