"Francisco Cantu's story is a lyrical journey that helps bridge the jagged line that divides us from them. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book is an invaluable corrective." - Phil Klay, author of Redeployment "A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk and lose - their lives crossing it. "There is a line dividing what we know and do not know. Some see the world from one shore and some from the other. Cantú brings the two together to a spiritual whole. My gratitude for this work of the soul." - Sandra Cisneros All around me the landscape trembled and breathed as one") and deep empathy make this an indispensable look at one of America's most divisive issues." - Publishers Weekly Cantú's rich prose ("For one brief moment, I forgot in which country I stood. Fresh, urgent.A devastating narrative of the very real human effects of depersonalized policy." - Kirkus
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