"Desert America is an uninsulated wire running through the
hard-bitten, right-now, rough-edged Southwest, a land still being
born. Go ahead and grab hold: first comes shock--maybe of
recognition, maybe alarm--then you keep buzzing for page after
electric page. You can't let go."--William deBuys, author of "A
Great Aridness" and "River of Traps"
The economic boom--and the devastation left in its wake--was writ
nowhere as large as on the American West. Over the past decade, the
most iconic of American landscapes has undergone a political and
demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the
frontier. In "Desert America," a work of powerful reportage and
memoir, acclaimed author Ruben Martinez explores a world of
extremes: drug addiction flourishing in the shadow of some of
America's richest zip codes, an exclusive Texas enclave that
coexists with bloodshed on the banks of the Rio Grande, and Native
Americans hunting down Mexican migrants crossing the most desolate
stretch of the border.
"Desert America" details Martinez's own love for this most
contested region and reveals that the great frontier is now in the
forefront of the vast disparities that are redefining the very idea
of America.
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