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    Crossers: A Novel
    Crossers: A Novel
    Crossers: A Novel
    Audiobook21 hours

    Crossers: A Novel

    Written by Philip Caputo

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Taking us from the turn of the twentieth century to our present day, from the impoverished streets of rural Mexico to the manicured lawns of suburban Connecticut, from the hot and dusty air of an isolated ranch to New York City in the wake of 9/11, Philip Caputo gives us an impeccably crafted story about three generations of an Arizona family forced to confront the violence and loss that have become its inheritance.

    When Gil Castle loses his wife in the Twin Tower attacks, he retreats to his family's sprawling homestead in a remote corner of the Southwest. Consumed by grief, he has to find a way to live with his loss in this strange, forsaken part of the country, where drug lords have more power than police and violence is a constant presence. But it is also a world of vast open spaces, where Castle begins to rebuild his belief in the potential for happiness-until he starts to uncover the dark truths about his fearsome grandfather, a legacy that has been tightly shrouded in mystery in the years since the old man's death.

    When Miguel Espinoza shows up at the ranch, terrified after two friends were murdered in a border-crossing drug deal gone bad, Castle agrees to take him in. Yet his act of generosity sets off a flood of violence and vengeance, a fierce reminder of the fact that while he may be able to reinvent himself, he may never escape his history.

    Searingly dramatic, bold, and timely, Crossers is Caputo's most ambitious and brilliantly realized novel yet.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 2, 2009
    ISBN9781400184262
    Crossers: A Novel
    Author

    Philip Caputo

    Philip Caputo was born in Chicago in 1941 and educated at Purdue and Loyola Universities. After graduating in 1964, he served in the US Marine Corps for three years, including a sixteen‑month tour of duty in Vietnam. In addition to Memory and Desire, he has written seventeen books, among them three memoirs, ten works of fiction, and four of general nonfiction. His first book, A Rumor of War, is considered a classic of war literature. It has been published in fifteen languages and has sold more than 1.5 million copies. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Caputo has written dozens of articles in major magazines, op‑ed pieces, and reviews for publications across the United States, including the New York Times, National Geographic, and the Chicago Tribune. He lives in Norwalk, Connecticut, and Patagonia, Arizona.

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    • 4/5
      Be prepared to go on an epic journey crisscrossing time when you read Crossers. Caputo will seize you by the scruff of your psyche to take you back and forth from the New York of September 11th, 2001 to the wild west of the early 1900s. You will bounce from the dirty roads of rural Mexico to the tranquil streets of Connecticut. Characters from all walks of life will march across the page: ruthless drug lords and crusty wild west outlaws; graceful artists and desperate illegal aliens. At the center of the story is one man, Gil Castle. Consumed by grief after losing his wife in the 9/11 attacks, Gil retreats to his generations old family's ranch in a remote corner of southwest Arizona. There he joins his uncle and cousin and tries to rebuild his heart while mending fences, tending cattle, and fighting off mules and murderers. In this respite he thought he could escaped the senseless violence of the terror attacks, but when the present day ancestors of ancient ghosts come seeking revenge for something his grandfather had done, Gil realizes his own family's past has a dark and dangerous story to tell and he will pay the price.
    • 4/5
      Was okay. Guy moves to a ranch near the Mexican boarder. Experiences the war on drugs firsthand. Story is somewhat boring. You expect more from Phillip Caputo.
    • 2/5
      Great background, and plot. Characters not well drawn, but stereotypical. The key women were all sex objects first, then whatever they did second. Men, of course lusty, virile, overactive, see women as sex objects.
    • 5/5
      Crossers pulls virtually every complicated issue plaguing the U.S.-Mexican border, populates it with richly-drawn, complicated characters, and adds a running history lesson that contextualizes how and why the culture of the border has wound up in the state that it is today. The denouement is stunning, and like any on the border, bloody, horrific and sad. I stayed up late getting there.
    • 5/5
      An excellent tale; deals with the ugly subject of illegal drug smuggling and illegal aliens coming into the U.S. Caputo has just moved onto the 'desired authors' list of mine. Wonderful insight and writing. Definitely fits the 'difficult to put down' category. A real pleasure to read.