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Original Title:	By the Lake of Sleeping Children
ISBN:	0385484194 (ISBN13: 9780385484190)
Edition Language:	English

By the Lake of Sleeping Children

Luis Alberto Urrea

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 542 Users | 65 Reviews

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Title	:	By the Lake of Sleeping Children
Author	:	Luis Alberto Urrea
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1996 by Anchor
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Politics

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By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists, and relief workers, fearsome coyotes, and their desperate clientele. In 16 indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys of people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico and the United States--and ignored by both. The result is a startling and memorable work of first-person reportage.

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This is short narratives about people living in Tijuana, as well as the author's personal experiences working in Baja California giving aid to orphanages around the state. He takes true stories and adds a poet's touch, taking journalism to a more human level. It's beautiful and heartbreaking, helarious and makes you want to cry. It encapsulates the border and the daily contradictions that makes this place so confusing and amazing, and explains some of the underlying political reasons behind why

At once heartening and sad and descriptive as hell. Like humanity is. I plowed through this quickly.

An intentionally shocking (because its true) cultural perspective, meant to jar its reader to recognize ALL societal facets. I found this book stirring, assertive, and at times too close for comfort. Please be sure to read the preface, as the author has provided important information as to which essays to skip for those faint of heart.

Insightful and inspiring. Urrea is a master of sharing the story of this population/community. There is so much I want to say...but I am left speechless.

Very graphic. Some parts were very obscene. If it wasn't required for my class I wouldn't have finished it. Description of life on the Mexican/American border.

Tijuana, Mexico is one of the most poor cities in all of the Americas. And in the most poor city, there are the poorest of the poor who live, work, and play in a dump. That's not an adjective but an actual place: people live in the city dump. People are born, play, work, and live in the dump, and even die and are buried in the dump. The title of the book refers to a lagoon in the middle of the dump in which long-deceased children's bodies find their way to the surface and float. The residents of

OutstandingI am always sad when I finish one of Luis's books. His slurs of writing had always made me feel as it I was standing right next to him seeing everything just as he described it.