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Name: Across the wire
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Author: Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea provides a series of candid snapshots that illuminate the lived reality of communities straddling the Mexican–American border. Each fragment offers an intimate look at how social conditions, economic pressures, and migration dynamics influence daily existence in the Baja California peninsula and surrounding border region.

First publish date: 1993

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Luis Alberto Urrea

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