All the agents and saints : dispatches from the U.S. borderlands /
"After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home--only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall,...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Part I: The Texas-Mexico borderlands. The miracle tree -- The rebel -- The venerable -- The activist and the ordinance -- The bonder and the dealer -- The agents -- The wall -- The chokepoint -- The woman in the woods -- The healing -- Part II: The New York-Canada borderlands. The sort of homecoming -- The trade -- The war -- The saint -- The activist and the obelisk -- The movement -- The mother tongue -- The bridge -- The river -- The words that come before all else -- Epilogue: The United States of in-between. | |
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