…top shooting off through the deserts of northern Arizona. Looking at it, I feel that I’m seeing, rather than reading, Walt Whitman’s great poem, Song of the Open Road. From The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman’s epic saga of crossing the great plains in the mid-19th century, to Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley, and William Least Heat Moon’s Blue Highways in the 20th, the road has been the subject of many books written…
…p-caputo. It sums up the book quite well. “Crossers” attempts to present a complex portrait, a mosaic in words, if you will, of what life is like “on the line:” the frontier between the U.S. and Mexico, between two cultures. It’s also story about the moral and emotional crossings people make, prodded by circumstances and their own characters. Immigration and border issues have returned to the front burner in Washington, and to the front pages, but…
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