Reviews

Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border by John Lueders-Booth, Luis Alberto Urrea

zzzzh233's review

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.0

this shit hurted

ofthebrownajah's review

4.0

Really sad to see all the devastation that occurs on the border. And the way they are treated by the police is revolting.

toggle_fow's review

4.0

I found this book stuffed in a cabinet at work and read it during breaks. It is a series of portraits: easy-to-read vignettes telling tiny parts of the stories of some of the poorest people on the Mexican side of the border. It is from the 1990s, and sometimes seems purposefully vulgar and other times pretentious, but the critical takeaway is that it is terrifying.