MixedLos Angeles Review of BooksWithout some striking detail to transfix us, the vignettes remain merely anecdotal ... A similar problem creeps into the writing. It’s a minor irony...that a landscape so sparse gives rise to a prose so lush ... The author is pressing too hard. He wants the moment to mean more than it does ... Even as Cantú’s \'dispatches\' fail to give us a moving portrayal of the migrants’ lives, he succeeds in showing us the limits of an agent’s \'on the ground, in the field\' perspective.
