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Enrique's Journey
If you enjoyed Enrique’s Journey, you may also enjoy reading these books. Clicking on the book covers will tell you if it’s available at your local San Diego public library.
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Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail by Ruben Martinez Both
An award-winning journalist and a poet, Martinez tracks a migrant family from Mexico to the U.S., and shows how migrant culture is changing America. |
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
In May 2001, 26 Mexican men scrambled across the border and into an area of the Arizona desert known as the Devil's Highway. Only 12 made it safely across. Writer and poet Urrea ,who was born in Tijuana and now lives outside Chicago, tracks the paths those men took from their home state of Veracruz all the way norte. |
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The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Go tell it in the valley: Boyle's newest novel is, according to the publicist, "a timely, provocative account" of immigration in central California
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Digging to America: A Novel by Anne Tyler
A story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam Yazdan, who after thirty-five years in this country must finally come to terms with her "outsiderness."
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Macho! by Victor Villasenor
Roberto Garcia was only seventeen, but with ambition to burn and a passion to prove his manhood, Roberto took the dangerous journey north, crossing the Mexican border to pick fruit in the golden fields of California.
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