Luis Alberto Urrea Borders Are Liminal Spaces
b'The wonderful writer Luis Alberto Urrea says that a deep truth of our time is that \\u201cwe miss each other.\\u201d He is singularly wise about the deep meaning and the problem of borders. The Mexican-American border, as he likes to say, ran straight through his parents\\u2019 Mexican-American marriage and divorce. His works of fiction and non-fiction confuse every dehumanizing caricature of Mexicans \\u2014 and of U.S. border guards. The possibility of our time, as he lives and witnesses with his writing, is to evolve the old melting pot to the 21st-century richness of \\u201cus\\u201d \\u2014 with all the mess and necessary humor required.'