Across the Wire ─ Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border

A compelling and unprecedented look at life on the other side of the border.??Despite the numbers of people crossing over to the U.S., hundreds more remain behind in abject poverty.??Urrea worked closely with them and provides a compassionate and candid account of their lives.

Luis Alberto Urrea was born in Tijuana to an American mother and a Mexican father.? He graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 1977.? After working as a film extra, he joined a crew of relief workers helping the poor on the Mexican side of the border.? In 1982, he went to Massachusetts, where he taught Expository Writing at Harvard.? Currently, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.