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The Devil's Highway: A True Story

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

The Devil's Highway is a necessary read on the discourse of illegal immigration, giving an exacting personal account of the journey from Mexico to America. With an engaging narrative voice that never loses either the personal immediacy or the greater implications, this is a modern classic.

This important and timely book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border.

"The single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" —The Atlantic ​


In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happ...

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