{"product_id":"border-odyssey-travels-along-the-u-s-mexico-divide-paperback-softback-9781477314005","title":"Border Odyssey; Travels Along the U.S.\/Mexico Divide (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477314005","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBorder Odyssey\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTravels Along the U.S.\/Mexico Divide\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharles D. Thompson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477314005, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 September 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eA potent cri de coeur for a more compassionate, sane and humane border policy.\u003c\/div\u003e (Kirkus Reviews) \u003cdiv\u003eThompson uses his travels to share his passion for the welfare of hard-working, good people, and to persuade his readers that such people have been trapped and exploited by a flawed immigration system.\u003c\/div\u003e - D.G. Martin (Winston-Salem Journal) \u003cdiv\u003e[Thompson] sought a firsthand look at how modern U.S. border policy has affected the people in the region, from migrant workers to indigenous people to border patrol agents to residents of economically stagnant towns just north of the boundary. The result is a travel memoir with a conscience, an extension of Thompson’s ongoing work to humanize the hotly debated region.\u003c\/div\u003e - Corbie Hill (The News \u0026amp; Observer) \u003cdiv\u003eDoes \u003ci\u003eBorder Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e bring us any closer to dissolving entrenched divisions and ingrained attitudes about the border? In presenting the struggles and strife of this place and its people with honesty and hope, Thompson shows the possibility and potential of such a beautiful dream.\u003c\/div\u003e - Yvette Benavides (The Texas Observer)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We were trying to change the vision and the conversation about border fears.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBorder Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on a drive toward understanding the U.S.\/Mexico divide: all 1,969 miles—from Boca Chica to Tijuana—pressing on with the useful fiction of a map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"We needed to go to the place where countless innocent people had been kicked, cussed, spit on, arrested, detained, trafficked, and killed. It would become clear that the border, \u003ci\u003ela frontera\u003c\/i\u003e, was more multifaceted and profound than anything we could have invented about it from afar.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlong the journey, five centuries of cultural history (indigenous, French, Spanish, Mexican, African American, colonist, and U.S.), wars, and legislation unfold. And through observation, conversation, and meditation, \u003ci\u003eBorder Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e scopes the stories of the people and towns on both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Stories are the opposite of walls: they demand release, retelling, showing, connecting, each image chipping away at boundaries. Walls are full stops. But stories are like commas, always making possible the next clause.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the terrain traversed: walls and more walls, unexpected roadblocks and patrol officers; a golf course (you could drive a ball across the border); a Civil War battlefield (you could camp there); the southernmost plantation in the United States; a hand-drawn ferry, a road-runner tracked desert, and a breathtaking national park; barbed wire, bridges, and a trucking-trade thoroughfare; ghosts with guns; obscured, unmarked, and unpaved roads; a Catholic priest and his dogs, artwork, icons, and political cartoons; a sheriff and a chain-smoking mayor; a Tex-Mex eatery empty of customers and a B\u0026amp;B shuttering its doors; murder-laden newspaper headlines at breakfast; the kindness of the border-crossing underground; and too many elderly, impoverished, ex-U.S. farmworkers, \u003ci\u003ebraceros\u003c\/i\u003e, lined up to have Thompson take their photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Evidence of Things Not Seen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. The Border Etched in Bones\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Traveling the Valley of the Shadow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Two Kinds of Flight\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Of Roads, Fences, and Neighbors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Boca Chica Sunset\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. The Ghosts of Palmito Ranch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. El Ranchero\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Border Guards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Brownsville Raids\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Rio Grande Guardians\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Progress?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. World’s Most Honest Man\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. Cowboy Priests\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15. The Hand-Drawn Ferry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16. Prohibition Bar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17. Border Walker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e18. The Road to Eagle Pass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19. Border Ambassador\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20. The Last Stay at Del Rio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e21. Seminole Canyon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e22. Braceros in Murder City\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e23. Fort Davis and the Buffalo Soldiers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e24. National Park on the Line\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e25. Pancho Villa and the Pink Store\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e26. Smoke on the Apacheria\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e27. A Grandmother Mourns at the Wall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e28. Fences and Neighbors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e29. Ground Zero of the Border Crisis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e30. Altar and Sacrifice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e31. Phoenix Rising\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e32. Tohono Sacred Peak and Desert Deaths\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e33. Campesinos Sin Fronteras\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e34. The Wall of Shame and Entrepreneurship\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e35. 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