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Title: Gut-wrenching
Review: Urrea employs great writing skills and techniques to tell the story of a group of Mexican immigrants who get lost in a trek from Mexico to the United States in search of a better life. The details of their journey are gruesome and described with terrifying clarity. This book is not for the faint of heart. But it reads like a good novel.Each character is well described; Urrea masterfully paints a human face on the victims we so easily ignore. The victims are not limited to the pollos. Even border patrol agents suffer trying to implement our nation's ill-conceived policies on the front lines of this war. Right and wrong get discarded and all participants are left in an insane struggle for survival.This book should be a wake-up call to those who write immigration policies in this country. And to those who foolishly think we can isolate ourselves from the rest of the world and its problems.We are all in this together.
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