This was a tough book to read, but it's eye-opening.

Fair warning, there is a chapter on what happens to the body, what it is physically like, to experience death by exhaustion, thirst, and heat. It will destroy you.

This story follows the disastrous journey of 26 men who tried to cross the Mexican border into Arizona, through a region known as The Devil's Highway. Only 12 would make it out alive.

By using an overarching narrative, Luis Alberto Urrea explains the reality of border control agencies, the people that work in them, the systems in place to control immigration, and the hopes and dreams and experiences of those that try to cross the border without documentation. You'll get a view of the entire kaleidoscope of the issues surrounding the border and immigration. I highly recommend it.