{"product_id":"across-the-wire-isbn-9780385425308","title":"Across the Wire","description":"\u003cp\u003e            Luis Alberto Urrea's \u003ci\u003eAcross the Wire \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border—a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen.  Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his work as a member and \"official translator\" of a crew of relief workers that provided aid to the many refugees hidden just behind the flashy tourist spots of Tijuana.  His account of the struggle of these people to survive amid abject poverty, unsanitary living conditions, and the legal and political chaos that reign in the Mexican borderlands explains without a doubt the reason so many are forced to make the dangerous and illegal journey \"across the wire\" into the United States.\u003cbr\u003e            More than just an expose, \u003ci\u003eAcross the Wire\u003c\/i\u003e is a tribute to the tenacity of a people who have learned to survive against the most impossible odds, and returns to these forgotten people their pride and their identity.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a riveting, compassionate, and beautiful narrative.  I will never be able to forget this powerful book.\" -John Nichols, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Milagro Beanfield War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"The Borderland—the trouble zone between two countries, between two languages, the poverty which is the huge shadow of affluence, the place where you live when life is impossible, the time between boyhood and manhood when a young man does crazy things, the region where the saints and the outlaws are— all these borderlands are in Urrea's book of horrors and marvels, tenderness and rage.\"- Ursula K. Le Guin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Left Hand of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLuis Alberto Urrea was born in Tijuana to an American mother and a Mexican father.  He graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 1977.  After working as a film extra, he joined a crew of relief workers helping the poor on the Mexican side of the border.  In 1982, he went to Massachusetts, where he taught Expository Writing at Harvard.  Currently, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303247302885,"sku":"NP9780385425308","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385425308.jpg?v=1767721034","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/across-the-wire-isbn-9780385425308","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}