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Summary: REAL LIFE DRAMA AND ADVENTURE
Review: Having recently read NEWJACK: GUARDING SING SING, I was motivated to look into other Conover works. The impression he left with Newjack was to be reinforced by the flawless COYOTES. Conover, the authour, goes where no American would dare. He befriends and lives along side Mexican immigrants who cross the border every year to find agricultural jobs. He details several occassions of crossing the border, a series of hardships and dangers. In his tales the reader is given first hand accounts of brutal mexican police, pesky immigration officers, and the ruthless and dangerous coyotes who smuggle illegals over the border and throughout the border territories. For Conover, interviews were not enough, he walked more than a few miles in their shoes. Not only does Conover do the adrenaline pumping crossings but he lives life on both sides of the border. He spends season in citrus groves in Arizona, California, and Florida. He spends the offseason in a mountainous Mexican ranchero, among what most of us would consider poverty. Through it all he does a moving and mesmorizing job of painting the picture of the migrant worker. The book is more than investigative non-fiction, it is a flowing story, encompassing a struggle few have accurately documented. The book reads fast, simultaneously entertaing and interesting the reader. This stands as a favorite in any non-fiction collection. Five stars and then some.
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Summary: Fantastic work
Review: I am a bilingual teacher living and working among recent immigrants to the US, and I found this book very enlightening and well written. This book spoke directly to my heart.
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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I read this book years ago while living in California, working with many Mexican immigrants as a school teacher. Coyotes spoke right to my heart...I couldn't put it down. I think Ted Connover is an excellent writer and a very brave, intelligent and adventurous guy! This continues to be my all time favorite book; the one I lend out to my dearest friends. I am looking forward to reading his other books.
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Summary: A New Outlook on My Fellow Americans
Review: The Mexicans you see everyday could quite possibly be illegal aliens. Then again they might also be United States citizens. These illegal aliens come from all over Mexico, and travel to work anywhere they can in the United States. From Idaho to Florida, they keep American produce in the grocery stores for less than minimum wage. The wages they earn may be appalling to many Americans, but to them it is immensely better than what they would earn in Mexico. Ted Conover tells his amazing journey of border hopping with illegal aliens in "Coyotes". Through either courage or just plain insanity, he endures a hike in the heat of the desert, a freezing winter road-trip in a busted up car, corrupt police, and of course the gun-toting immigrant smugglers, coyotes. This is an excellent read, and the best non-fiction book I have ever read. I would recommend this book to those who have interacted with Mexicans, and those who have not.
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Summary: Moving & Thought Provoking
Review: This book was both moving & thought provoking as it explains just a few illegal immigration stories. What you realize by the end of the book is that these are more than stories...these are people's lives. Filled with all the feeling and emotion that REAL PEOPLE experience, the reader comes to know that these experiences aren't just another immigration story filled with all its hardships and obstacles. It's about loss, yearning, looking forward to the future, friendships, and the upstanding of people you have no reason to trust. A definite good read.
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