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A beautiful read. --Ari Shapiro, All Things Considered, NPR Lyrical . . . Part travelogue, part traditional memoir . . . The story of the striving, first-generation kid made good is a familiar one; Alvarez makes his ache. --The New York Times Book Review More than another tale of blistered feet and dehydration. It's about the immigrant experience, about the indigenous experience--and finding one's place as a witness when you're neither. --Salon A spellbinding narrative of his coming to terms with his place in America today . . . This literary tour de force beautifully combines outdoor adventure with a sharp take on immigration. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) This book is not like any other out there . . . A beautiful run. --Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway

A beautiful read. --Ari Shapiro, All Things Considered, NPR Lyrical . . . Part travelogue, part traditional memoir . . . The story of the striving, first-generation kid made good is a familiar one; Alvarez makes his ache. --The New York Times Book Review More than another tale of blistered feet and dehydration. It's about the immigrant experience, about the indigenous experience--and finding one's place as a witness when you're neither. --Salon A spellbinding narrative of his coming to terms with his place in America today . . . This literary tour de force beautifully combines outdoor adventure with a sharp take on immigration. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) This book is not like any other out there . . . A beautiful run. --Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway

A Remezcla Best Book by Latine or Latin American Authors of the Year A beautiful read. --Ari Shapiro, All Things Considered, NPR Lyrical . . . Part travelogue, part traditional memoir . . . The story of the striving, first-generation kid made good is a familiar one; Alvarez makes his ache. --The New York Times Book Review More than another tale of blistered feet and dehydration. It's about the immigrant experience, about the indigenous experience--and finding one's place as a witness when you're neither. --Salon A spellbinding narrative of his coming to terms with his place in America today . . . This literary tour de force beautifully combines outdoor adventure with a sharp take on immigration. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) This book is not like any other out there . . . A beautiful run. --Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway

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NOÉ ÁLVAREZ was born to Mexican immigrant parents and raised working-class in Yakima, Washington. He holds degrees in philosophy and creative writing from Whitman College and Emerson College, respectively. He studied conflict analysis, peacemaking, and conflict resolution at American University and in Northern Ireland, received a fellowship at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and researched U.S. drug policy, military aid, and human rights issues in Colombia’s Putumayo jungles. He lives in Boston, where, until recently, he worked as a security officer at the Boston Athenæum.

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