Crossers (Vintage Contemporaries)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (569 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375725989 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Somehow, one tale set in yesterday and another in today lost power standing alone. Question: How did you decide to structure this novel as a multi-generational story, incorporating family history and oral transcripts?Philip Caputo: Originally, I intended to write two novels. I accompanied him on two undercover assignments in Mexico and on a few missions on this side of the border. Then, I had one of those moments that makes writing such an adventure. The stories illegal immigrants told me about their sufferings moved me as well. On
Border Epic C.Wallace This book moved back and forth between two stories, much as several of its characters cross back and forth between the U.S. and Mexico. The primary story is that of Gil Castle, a highly successful Wall Street financial analyst (net worth: "low eight figures") whose wife was on the plane that smashed into the north tower on 9/11. In an attempt to recover from the grief that paralyzed him for two years after this di. "Issues along our southern border" according to Cherie M. Mcginn. My husband and I retired to southern New Mexico three years ago from the east coast. While on the east coast I told many of my friends that I intended to join a group that provided water for illegal immigrants crossing the border into NM. Seeing and reading about the problems caused by the "crossers" forced me to have second thoughts. Caputo's book finalized my concerns. He does an absolutely excellent job of pres. "switterbug" Betsey Van Horn said History's reprisalghosts and bones. I dashed out to buy Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Philip Caputo's, latest novel after reading an enthusiastic review in my local newspaper. I was unfamiliar with this author, but I was intrigued by the promise of a burly border tale. I was not disappointed. This is a generational saga and epic of the southwest, bristling with illegal border crossers and warring drug cartels, studded with outlaws and vaqueros.
Yet his act of generosity sets off a flood of violence and vengeance, a fierce reminder that we never truly escape our history. Spanning three generations of an Arizona family, Crossers is a blistering novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the border.. Here Castle begins to rebuild his life, even as he uncovers some dark truths about his fearsome grandfather. When a Mexican illegal shows up at the ranch, terrified after a border-crossing drug deal gone bad, Castle agrees to take him in. When Gil Castle loses his wife, he retreats to his family’s sprawling homestead out west, a forsaken part of the country where drug lords have more power than police