Culture | Walking the line

A border patrolman’s harrowing memoir

Francisco Cantú describes boundaries and tries to break them down

The Line Becomes a River. By Francisco Cantú. Riverhead Books; 256 pages; $26. Bodley Head; £14.99.

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