![]() ![]() The landscape of the Southwest that was originally his family geography becomes a source of dread, as he tries to make sense of working in an organization that seems to either harden or sink those within it. The Line Becomes a River is caught halfway between memoir and tone poem, as Cantú offers snapshots of his life in and around the Border Patrol. ![]() And like all Cantú's dialogue, it weaves in and out of paragraphs without quotation marks, so nothing interrupts the sense of someone relating a long and terrible dream.Īnd terrible it is. Whatever it is, I'll never understand it unless I'm close to it." It's surreal dialogue, the sort of thing that feels like a promise and only later turns out to be an omen. "Maybe it's the desert, maybe it's the closeness of life and death, maybe it's the tension between the two cultures we carry inside us. How?Įarly in The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú tells his mother his reasons for joining the Border Patrol. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Line Becomes a River Author Francisco Cantu ![]()
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