After 20 years, Luis Alberto Urrea’s heart sinks a little whenever sales of his most famous work, “Devil’s Highway,” increase.
Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Luis Alberto Urrea speaks at Indiana University Northwest in Gary on Thursday, March 28, 2024.
Luis Urrea, who’d grown up near the U.S.-Mexico border and had written so much about it already, really didn’t want to at first, mostly because he feared having to deal with border patrol. “I immediately said ‘No!’ and he said, ‘Ok, I’ll get the contract over to you!’,” Luis Urrea said, laughing. “Professors, remember that trick.”
Another time, the agent was joking with two men who were propping up a third man walking along the same tracks. It took the agent a minute to realize the man in the middle had his feet cut off by the train, and he was still trying to walk, Luis Urrea said. The Urreas have continued to watch the struggles of immigration and the way countries are learning – or not learning – how to handle what’s going to become an even bigger issue as climate change continues to loom. Mexico, for example, has never had a plan for refugees, and people who help them can get in trouble.
Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Luis Alberto Urrea speaks with readers at Indiana University Northwest in Gary on Thursday, March 28, 2024.
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