NAMED A HIGH 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR as well as the WASHINGTON POST

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES Moments BOOK Award IN CURRENT INTEREST

FINALIST FOR THE Country wide BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD

The instant NY Times bestseller, ‘A must-read for anybody who thinks ‘build a wall’ may be the answer to anything.’ –Esquire

For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the bloodstream: his mother, a recreation area ranger and child of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Powered to comprehend the about The Collection Turns into a River: Dispatches from the Boundary hard realities from the panorama he adores, Cantú joins the Boundary Patrol. He and his companions learn to monitor other human beings under blistering sun and through frigid evenings. They haul in the deceased and deliver to detention those they discover alive. Suffering from a growing knowing of his complicity inside a dehumanizing business, he abandons the Patrol for civilian lifestyle. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to go to his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers the fact that border has migrated with him, and today he must know the full extent of the assault it wreaks, on both sides of the series.