The Devil's Highway

I just started reading the book which is UC Davis's campus-community book project for this spring, The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea.

It's a nonfiction account of approximately 26 Mexican men (some were teenaged sons of others in the group) who were walking over the border between Yuma and Tucson in May of 2001. They became lost and their guides abandoned them, and more than half of them died.

It's a very sad story, well written and provides a lot of information about how the whole process works. It should be interesting to hear more about it during the spring.