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Luis Urrea’s beautifully written account of a group of men attempting to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona became a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a book of the year, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.

Their odyssey traverses one of the deadliest regions in the world, called the "Devil's Highway". This far less visible aspect of US southern border immigration comes alive in this haunting tale.

The novel traces the shattered remnants of the life of an intellectual after he's accused of racism. The charge is unfounded, but the real truth, a secret he has kept for 50 years, is astonishing.

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Philip Roth's national bestseller is winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award, and one of the NY Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. This is Roth at his very best.
“A master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" (The Wall Street Journal).