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Jumping The Line - Softcover

Harpold, Michael G.

 
9781940598055: Jumping The Line

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Through its fictional characters, Jumping the Line provides an intriguing and accurate look at an issue historically important and still debated. The author, a former U.S. Border Patrol officer, treats his characters with compassion but does not gloss over their mistakes. Readers will be sucked in by the story and come away with a stronger understanding of the everyday realities farmworkers face. -- Leila Kheiry

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During the war, Michael G. Harpold served two years with USAID in South Vietnam as an advisor to the National Police. His forty-year career of service to country began at age seventeen in the US Army and includes the US Border Patrol, and its parent, the former US Immigration and Naturalization Service. The author and his wife, Elaine, live in Ketchikan, Alaska, where he continued to serve his community as a member of the city council and the school board. His first book, a novel, Jumping the Line, describes the lives of Mexican-American farmworkers and Mexican immigrants. Harpold also wrote Jumping the Line.

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