The Devil's Highway: A True Story

Luis Alberto Urrea

Jun 2011 · Hachette Audio · Narrated by Luis Alberto Urrea

About this audiobook

This important 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 happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.

Ratings and reviews

Narration by the author is nice. His downward inflections emphasize the gravity intended by his words. Have been to Organ Pipe Cactus, the rez, Why, Ajo as a tourist camper without realizing what I was in the midst of. Am better able to appreciate the effort by the BPA's to try to keep people alive.

While this book sounds interesting and I may pick it up at some point, I don't think it has anything to do with a BE33.

Hey Google, when I search Medieval history this is not a relevant result

About the author

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonficiton The Devil's Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea is also the bestselling author of the novels The Hummingbird's Daughter, Into the Beautiful North, and Queen of America, as well as the story collection The Water Museum, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist.

He has won the Lannan Literary Award, an Edgar Award, and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among many other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, he lives outside of Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago.