Southwest Book Review: Luis Urrea's 'By The Lake Of Sleeping Children'

KNAU 's Southwest book reviewer Mary Sojourner started a new year by reading old things. In 2016 Luis Urrea's "The Lake of Sleeping" was published for 20 years. It depicts quite a contrast between poverty in the north and south of the border between the US and Mexico. For Sojourner, this book responds to her beliefs in surprising gaps between surviving holidays and real survivors.

We have just departed from our vacation. Now for a lot of people it will be confusing what to buy, what to do and what kind of travel plan to pass. I learned Louis Uria's furious and calm book "The Lying Sleeping Children" again on New Year's Eve and learned how easy it is for most of us to get the worst vacation pressures.

The story is not about bright, bright water. The lake is a smelly pool near Tijuana's former garbage dump "El Dompe". Visiting the lake is the center of the picture of Hieronymus Bosch. The children did not sleep. They are out of order. They are buried in the decomposing shore of the lake, floating in water - become particles and tidy up the gull's food

Urrea wrote an article about the crisis arising from unimaginable poverty - his extraordinary details and compassion is that the lives of the people we imagine live only at the edge of "El Dompe" Not claim to find them with food, clothes. Architectural life

He introduced us to a violent Negra who grew up in a garbage dumpster and after another 7 months pregnancy lost another woman who invaded her territory. He wrote a little boy about Felix ... he was thinner and harder. His freckles and hair are better than all the other boys ... he chooses a fight that he does not want to win all the time. Urrea became friends with this child, - after the boy believed in him - wearing such boast boots without soles

Urrea moves between residents of "El Dompe", not looking for a tough side of life. He was born at the border. He was smelly, working in a dangerous place. From that reality he gave us the story that we are faithful to others for his life and coyotes, orphans, women's lives, no choice, only self-propagation - and to be unable to do.

The first book by Luis Alberto Urea "Life on the Mexican border and hard times" is unbelievable. Life on the frontier of Mexico seems to have never been before but the most disappointing is the southern part. White sandy beaches and coral reefs in California. His keen, widely acclaimed explanation about the struggle of these people in poor and unsanitary living environments and the legal and political turmoil of Mexico's border regulations vividly counts so many people ' In 16 disappearing portraits forced to cross 'an illegal journey', Urrea reveals the fear and simple pleasures of the people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico and the United States - both ignored It will be. Report a wonderful memorable work

We have just departed from our vacation. Now for a lot of people it will be confusing what to buy, what to do and what kind of travel plan to pass. I revived Luis Urrea's furious and gentle book "The Sleeping of Sleeping Children" on New Year's Eve and learned how much of our worst holiday pressure is for most of us. The story is not about bright, bright water. The lake is a smelly pool near Tijuana's former garbage dump "El Dompe". Visiting the lake is the center of the picture of Hieronymus Bosch. The children did not sleep. They are out of order. They are buried in the decomposing shore of the lake, floating in water - become particles and tidy up the gull's food