THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER

For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the sc rublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to r emote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, where they learn to track other humans under blistering sun and t hrough frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Cantú tries not to think where the stori es go fr...[Read more]