# By the Lake of Sleeping Children

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- Authors: [Luis Urrea](https://www.bookquiver.com/luis-urrea)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-8548-419-0
- Pages: 208
- Published: 1996-09-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists, and relief workers, fearsome coyotes, and their desperate...