Francisco Cantú
Season 7, Episode 11
Francisco Cantú is a Mexican-American who served as an agent for the US Border Patrol in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. He joined Robin and Josie to talk about that experience and how it led him to write The Line Becomes a River, his new book on the horrors witnessed on the border. They also chat about the work of Jung, WG Sebald, Shalom Auslander and much more.
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Reading List
Francisco recommends:
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The work of Carl Jung
The work of W.G. Sebald
On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald
The work of Primo Levi
Josie recommends:
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Hope by Shalom Auslander
The Informed Heart by Bruno Bettelheim
Robin recommends:
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
The work of Steve Moore
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
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