[Peace] events featuring visiting author of immigration book "The Devil's Highway"

[Karen Medina]

Visiting author: Luis Alberto Urrea (pronounced oo-RAY-uh)
Book title: The Devil's Highway: A True Story
2 events, both on September 12, 2008
* 12 noon speaking at the Y
* 5pm reading and book-signing at Pages For All Ages
Organizers are New Sanctuary Movement -- a group dedicated to  
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The Devil's Highway tells the 2001 story of 26 men who attempted to cross the 
Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest 
region of the continent. Only 12 men emerged. It was the single largest tragedy 
in the growing exodus of Mexican immigrants into the United States. This book 
tells the story from many different perspectives and with compassion for all 
involved: the survivors, the coyotes (those who get paid to lead people across 
the border), and the border patrol.

Urrea, speaking about his book-signing events where he reads from his book: 
"I'm asking them to have compassion for people that a lot of my audience 
considers criminals. [...] If you're not there as an anti-immigrant guy, then 
you're probably a liberal and have a real anti-Border Patrol bias. So I'm asking a 
lot of people in every direction."

Speaking event: 
Friday Forum, September 12
12noon to 1:30pm
University YMCA's Latzer Hall
1001 South Wright Street
Champaign, IL 61820-6285
>* All lectures are free and open to the public.
>* Lunch may be purchased for $6.00 ($3.00 for students with a valid ID.) 
>* All forums broadcast on WEFT 90.1FM the Monday after the lecture. Video 
and audio tapes are available for purchace from the YMCA at cost. 

Book signing and other activities (a reading, food, and other activities)
Pages For All Ages bookstore
5pm-7pm
September 12
1201 Savoy Plaza Lane
Savoy, Il. 61853

Books can be purchased at a discount at Pages For All Ages, if you mention that 
it is part of a book club. 
The Devil's Highway: A True Story 
by Urrea, Luis Alberto 
Format:  Trade Paperback, 239 pages
Price:  $13.99
Published: Back Bay Books, 2005 
Inventory Status: On Shelves Now at Pages For All Ages
(Hardcover/cloth is $24.95 and can be ordered)
ISBN-10 : 0316010804
ISBN-13 : 9780316010801

Copies at all public libraries are currently checked out (as of 28 July 2008).

Read it alone, or join a book club that is reading the book by contacting Rev. 
Mike Mulberry <m.mulberry at comcast.net> or Patricia Syoen 
psyoen35 at sbglobal.net who will get you into contact with a group.

-karen medina