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Spirit Run. A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
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- Nombre de pages240
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-1-948226-47-9
- EAN9781948226479
- Date de parution03/03/2020
- Protection num.Adobe DRM
- Taille2 Mo
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- ÉditeurCatapult
Résumé
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEThe son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this "stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many landscapes of the Americas" (Catriona Menzies-Pike, author of The Long Run)Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe? A?lvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, A?lvarez struggled to fit in.
At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dene?, Secwe?pemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O'odham, Seri, Pure?pecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, A?lvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits.
He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear-dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion-but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities. Running through mountains, deserts, and cities, and through the Mexican territory his parents left behind, A?lvarez forges a new relationship with the land, and with the act of running, carrying with him the knowledge of his parents' migration, and-against all odds in a society that exploits his body and rejects his spirit-the dream of a liberated future."This book is not like any other out there.
You will see this country in a fresh way, and you might see aspects of your own soul. A beautiful run." -Lui?s Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels"An anthem to the landscape that holds our identities and traumas, and its profound power to heal them." -Francisco Cantu?, author of The Line Becomes a River
At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dene?, Secwe?pemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O'odham, Seri, Pure?pecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, A?lvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits.
He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear-dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion-but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities. Running through mountains, deserts, and cities, and through the Mexican territory his parents left behind, A?lvarez forges a new relationship with the land, and with the act of running, carrying with him the knowledge of his parents' migration, and-against all odds in a society that exploits his body and rejects his spirit-the dream of a liberated future."This book is not like any other out there.
You will see this country in a fresh way, and you might see aspects of your own soul. A beautiful run." -Lui?s Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels"An anthem to the landscape that holds our identities and traumas, and its profound power to heal them." -Francisco Cantu?, author of The Line Becomes a River
