A review by annie139d7
The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

 The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea follows the story of a group of Mexicans as they attempt to cross the Sonoran Desert into the US. 14 of the 16 walkers end up dying before the group is picked up by American border agents. This event was highly publicized at the time, and Urrea’s work tells the story of those involved in this event and the many similar tragedies that occur in the desert. 
 
I think most Americans have a ‘bad guy’ they view as the group causing problems at the US-Mexican border, whether that’s the boarder control, the federal government, crime syndicates, corporations, or the individual crossers themselves. Urrea’s book excels because it forces the reader to see the humanity and drives of each ‘bad guy’ and question who is at fault for the mass numbers of people dying at the border in the hopes that the reader considers their complicity in the current US immigration system. 
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