Stephanie Elizondo Griest is author of the award-winning memoirs Around the Bloc and Mexican Enough. Assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she has lectured across the globe, including as U.S. State Department literary ambassador to Venezuela in 2015, and has been Henry Luce Scholar in China, Hodder Fellow at Princeton, and winner of the Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
A must-read for anyone interested in the history of North America,
its borderlands and their repercussions.--Chapel Hill Magazine
An exploration of the borderlands that deftly mixes memoir,
groundbreaking sociology, deep reporting, and compelling writing. .
. . Demonstrates unforgettably that national borders constitute
much more than lines on a map.--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Builds a potent case for the erasure of arbitrary borderlines. This
work of exploration and reporting is a timely reflection on the
meaning and nature of much-discussed national
boundaries.--Booklist
Captivating, riveting. . . a call to action for anyone that claims
to really care about solving the complex social problems festering
in the borderlands.--Arkansas Review
Elizondo Griest glimpses the modern immigrant experience through
the lives of people who live in more than one culture. . . .
Wrestles with profound questions of identity and belonging in a
constantly shifting and increasingly unstable world.--Publishers
Weekly
Offers much more than just a very smart and companionable tour of
the country's ragged edges. It offers a model for how a curious
person, any person who is sufficiently interested, can begin to
navigate the boundaries that compartmentalize our country, and
ourselves, toward wholeness.--Brad Tyer, Texas Observer
With sensitivity and eye-opening detail, [Elizondo Griest's]
dispatches reveal both the pain and strength of borderlands
people.--Shelf Awareness
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