Settings & Atmosphere - Fiction, Hispanic Americans - Fiction & Literature, Westerns
Log in to track your reading progress.
Overview
A warm, gripping novel of the more modern West that explores a subject of intense interest to all Americans. Wonderfully told, this novel should endure. -- Norman ZollingerTakes an unusually compassionate view of the illegal alien s plight. Though the "wetback" breaks the law by "crossing over," he usually does so only in desperation, for home and family. -- Elmer Kelton
A gripping story of the plight of an illegal Mexican and his desperate search to provide more for his family than poverty and hopelessness in a dying land. To follow his dream, he must risk his life. A hunted man, he must deal with criminals on a difficult and bold journey to what he prays will be a better life.
Book Details
Published
December 1, 1997
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pages
363
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780786212385