03132cam a2200313 4500 545463724 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544290082 0544290089 B00HK3F0J6 Amazon 8724a18f-ac1a-4ab9-9441-42508250de1b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1578724 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Vaillant, John. The Jaguar's Children [Libby] : A Novel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1163kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><b>This "extraordinary" novel of one man's border crossing reveals "a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the thirst to be free" (NPR).</b><br /> <br /> Héctor is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers' money for a mechanic and have not returned.<br /> <br /> Héctor finds a name in his friend César's phone: AnniMac. A name with an American number. He must reach her, both for rescue and to pass along the message César has come so far to deliver. But are his messages going through?<br /> <br /> Over four days, as water and food run low, Héctor tells how he came to this desperate place. His story takes us from Oaxaca—its rich culture, its rapid change—to the dangers of the border, exposing the tangled ties between Mexico and El Norte. And it reminds us of the power of storytelling and the power of hope, as Héctor fights to ensure his message makes it out of the truck and into the world.<br /> <br /> Both an outstanding suspense novel and an arresting window into the relationship between two great cultures, <i>The Jaguar's Children</i> shows how deeply interconnected all of us are.<br /> <br /> "This is what novels can do—illuminate shadowed lives, enable us to contemplate our own depths of kindness, challenge our beliefs about fate. Vaillant's use of fact to inspire fiction brings to mind a long list of powerful novels from the past decade or so: <i>What is the What</i> by Dave Eggers; <i>The Map of Love</i> by Ahdaf Soueif; <i>The Storyteller</i> by Jodi Picoult." —Amanda Eyre Ward, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br /> <br /> "[A] heartbreaker . . . Wrenching . . . with a voice fresh and plangent enough to disarm resistance." —<i>The Boston Globe</i><br /> <br /> "Fearless." —<i>The Globe and Mail</i></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/jaguar-s-children-8724a1?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/jaguar-s-children-8724a1?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/jaguar-s-children-8724a1?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)