Readalikes: If you enjoyed September's selection . . .

 If you liked The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú, then you might also enjoy these books suggested by our discussion group members:

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin

Lost Children Archive: A Novel by Valeria Luiselli

Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff

And in a 2019 interview for The New School, Melanie Odell asked, 

"What authors can you recommend who are writing about the border now?"

Cantú replied,

"I think a lot of the best writing about the border has been coming from poets. The poet Natalie Scenters-Zapico and her book The Verging Cities. The Mexican poet Sara Uribe, whose work is referenced in The Line Becomes a River. The essayist Cristina Rivera Garza’s forthcoming book, Dolerse, is one of the most important collections of essays and thinking about the violence happening in Mexico. Reyna Grande’s memoirs and Javier Zamora’s book of poetry, Unaccompanied. One of the most important books I read last year was Gore Capitalism by Sayak Valencia. She is a thinker and intellectual living in Tijuana. She writes a lot about the intersections of drug war violence in Mexico and US capitalism, and how the spectacle of violence feeds the process of de-humanization."