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Describe your latest book.
The Line Becomes a River is a book about the years I spent working as an agent for the US Border Patrol, and my interior journey toward coming to terms with the violent nature of that work. I became obsessed with the border in college, and had become filled with all of these questions about it, questions I felt could only be answered by experiencing the realities of the border for myself. I was looking for the thing that would give me access to the border as a fully-realized place — I didn’t want to be shielded from complexity and ugliness. As the son of a park ranger, I also distinctly wanted to be close to the landscape...