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A review by mathildekr
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
5.0
“I'm afraid the violence will no longer shake me.”
In this powerful and cathartic memoir, Francisco Cantú intends to make sense of his experience of the Border, as a Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. Haunted by recurrent nightmares, Cantú grasps the essence of the Border, its violence, its history, its despair, its landscape. Doing so, he reminds us of the uncountable, nameless, unidentified individuals who die attempting to cross the Border, in search of a better life, and he offers a better understanding of the machinery of a system that shows little concern for individuals.
In this powerful and cathartic memoir, Francisco Cantú intends to make sense of his experience of the Border, as a Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. Haunted by recurrent nightmares, Cantú grasps the essence of the Border, its violence, its history, its despair, its landscape. Doing so, he reminds us of the uncountable, nameless, unidentified individuals who die attempting to cross the Border, in search of a better life, and he offers a better understanding of the machinery of a system that shows little concern for individuals.