Resources for The Devil's Highway

• Conversations with Ilan Stavans: Luis Alberto Urrea
• "Devastating Picture Of Immigrants Dead In Arizona Desert": New York Times article on the Yuma 14
• "Border Town" photo essay by Reynaldo Leal
• 1941 Time Magazine Article on Devil's Highway
• "Coyotes: Criminals to the U.S. but Heroes to Many Immigrants": USA Today
• National Geographic: "U.S.-Mexico Barrier Spurring Even More Foot Traffic, Enviro Demage"

What the Critics Say

"Riveting."
–Raymond Fiore, Entertainment Weekly

"A bang-up survival story that also has the depth of genuine tragedy."
–Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure

"Urrea's writing is wickedly good-outrage tempered with concern channeled into deft prose."
–Kathleen Johnson, Kansas City Star

"The book's rare power is that it is both epic in scope-a trek through the wilderness in search of 'the promised land'-and intensely personal. . . . Urrea writes about U.S.-Mexican border culture with a tragic and beautiful intimacy that has no equal."
–Tom Montgomery-Fate, Boston Globe

"One of the great surrealistic tragedies of the global age. . . . Urrea has crafted an impassioned and poetic exploration of the dark side of globalization, where commodities flow free and people die in the desert."
–Jefferson Cowie, Chicago Tribune