They have come from all over Mexico to find shelter and adventure in the drainage tunnels that connect the twin cities of Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales, Arizona. This book opens up the world of the tunnel kids and tells how in this murky underworld of struggling immigrants, drug dealers, and thieves, these kids have carved out a place of their own. Lawrence Taylor and Maeve Hickey met these kids at Mi Nueva Casa, the safe house built to draw the youths out of the tunnels and into a more normal life. The authors spent two summers with tunnel kids as they roamed all over Nogales and beyond in their struggle to survive.
Hickey s stunning portraits provide a heart-stopping counterpoint to Taylor s incisive prose.
Writer and anthropologist Lawrence Taylor is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Artist and photographer Maeve Hickey has exhibited both sculpture and photography extensively in Europe and the United States. April 150 pp. Hickey s spare photographs allow the fear, the hope, the strength, and the vulnerability of the tunnel kids to seep into our consciousness.