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Title	:	Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens
Author	:	Ted Conover
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	August 12th 1987 by Vintage
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Sociology. History

Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

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conover is a serious badass. plain and simple. he heads down to mexico, joins up with a group of pollos who, led by a coyote, sneaks through the desert for two days, crosses the border (gets beat up, tortured, and robbed along the way), spends a season picking fruit with his new amigos and then all of 'em knock around the country looking for work before heading back down to mexico. this is a terrific book. gonna pick up New Jack (conover becomes a guard at Sing Sing!) and White Out (a taxi driver in aspen) next...

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Original Title:	Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens
ISBN:	0394755189 (ISBN13: 9780394755182)
Edition Language:	English

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I wanted to like this book, but it felt outdated. I appreciated many of the immigrants' stories, but really struggled with paying attention at the end. I know immigration has been around forever, but I feel like it changes with the times, and when this book was written, perhaps it wasn't such a hot button issue. I think this book is great for the history of unauthorized entry, but it doesn't really speak to the current day and the journey that immigrants face here in 2017.

I read this book years ago while doing research for my novel The Iguana Tree. Conover's book remains one of my favorite non-fiction reads, and I find myself going back to it from time to time as I think about immigration, undocumented border crossings, and what that experience is like for those who choose to undertake that journey.

I loved reading Coyotes by Ted Conover. His adventure, sneaking through the border and around country with illegal migrants, was astonishing and somehow it was shocking. With lots of insight from both side of border, he revealed lots of facts that I didnt know about. It was tough and dangerous journey, but through his journey, he made lots of good friends and relationships with illegal migrants, who are human being just like you.

conover is a serious badass. plain and simple. he heads down to mexico, joins up with a group of pollos who, led by a coyote, sneaks through the desert for two days, crosses the border (gets beat up, tortured, and robbed along the way), spends a season picking fruit with his new amigos and then all of 'em knock around the country looking for work before heading back down to mexico. this is a terrific book. gonna pick up New Jack (conover becomes a guard at Sing Sing!) and White Out (a taxi



I feel like I have a relationship with Ted Conover. He grew up in Denver. He is my age. When he was a young man he hung out with Hoboes in Hobo camps and rode the rails. In between Peace Corps and my short stint in medical school, I hung out with pregnant homeless woman, in the night and day shelters, taught them about birth, stayed with them through labors,and helped them set up again in homes. In the long mostly nights of letting babies come I heard many stories of young women traveling anyway

This book was first published in 1986. Ted Conover, the author, is a journalist who joins migrants in their travels to and from the United States. Even though his experiences were relatively long ago, I think the process is still the same, except probably even more dangerous for the migrants. The migrants went to Phoenix to pick citrus, Idaho for potatoes, and Michigan for apples. They travel in dangerous circumstances, having to travel with the help of "coyotes" to help them across the border.