Monday, June 25, 2018

No Wall Too High by Xu Hongci (2008)

A great memoir of a guy who spent years in prison in China from the 1950's to 1970's for political crimes and managed to escape.  It really gives you a sense of what living on the wrong side a dictatorship can be like and the prison break is inspiring.  Read it.


Monday, June 11, 2018

The Line Becomes a River (2018) by Francisco Cantu

This is a memoir written by a border agent.  It's well written and written on a good and timely topic.  Nasty stuff happen to good people trying to get over it.  Most if not all of his experiences are before Trump. The border build up predated him by some years.  It's interesting to see where things are going before they get there.