title: The Devil's Highway: A True Story
author:  Luis Alberto Urrea 
description: "In artful yet uncomplicated prose, Urrea captivatingly tells how a dozen men squeezed by to safety...Confident and full of righteous rage, Urrea's story is a well-crafted melange of first-person testimony, geographic history, cultural and economic analysis, poetry and an indictment of immigration policy."<b><i><i>Publishers Weekly</i></i></b><br /><br />"A powerful, almost diabolical impression of the disaster and the exploitative conditions of the border. Urrea shows immigration policy on the human level."<b><i><i>Booklist</i></i></b>
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  Other Books by Luis Alberto Urrea
  
  
  NONFICTION
  
  
  _The Devil’s Highway: A True Story_
  
  
  _Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border_
  
  
  _By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border_
  
  
  _Nobody’s Son_
  
  
  _Wandering Time_
  
  
  FICTION
  
  
  _In Search of Snow_
  
  
  _Six Kinds of Sky_
  
  
  POETRY
  
  
  _The Fever of Being_
  
  
  _Ghost Sickness_
  
  
  _Vatos_
  
  
  
  
  
  [ABOUT THE AUTHOR](HummingbirdsDa_toc.html#auth_bio_1)
  
  LUIS ALBERTO URREA is the author of _The Devil’s Highway,_ winner of the 2004
  Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction; _Across the Wire,_ winner of the
  Christopher Award; and _By the Lake of Sleeping Children._ He is the recipient
  of an American Book Award, a Western States Book Award, and a Colorado Book
  Award, and he has been inducted into the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. His
  poetry has been collected in _The Best American Poetry,_ and his short-story
  collection, _Six Kinds of Sky,_ won the 2002 _ForeWord_ _Magazine_ Book of the
  Year Award, Editor’s Choice