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JitterbugPerfume

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10. The Devils Highway :A True Story

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Mon Jun 18, 2012, 10:37 AM

Jun 2012

Last edited Mon Jun 18, 2012, 11:33 AM - Edit history (1)

by Luis Alberto Urrea

It is a story of the border, and those who seek to cross it and those who exploit them in their heartbreaking innocence. This is not a pretty feel good book but it is an important book if we are ever to fully understand our neighbors to the south.

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