num_pages: 208
description: By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists, and relief workers, fearsome coyotes, and their desperate clientele. In 16 indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys of people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico and the United States—and ignored by both. The result is a startling and memorable work of first-person reportage.
language: English
title: By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border
titlecomplete: By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border
genres: Banned Books, Memoir, Poverty, Latin American, Adult, Social Issues, Essays, Politics, International, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 657
publisher: Anchor