Lemon Library Book Club: The Devil's Highway

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The Devil’s Highway: A True Story, is a non-fiction work by Luis Alberto Urrea that details a disastrous 2001 border crossing from Mexico to the United States by a group of men through a treacherous stretch of desert in Southern Arizona. This national bestseller is a deeply researched examination of the border crisis through multiple nuanced perspectives, including those of migrants and the border patrol. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2004, it is still widely regarded as a modern classic.

This selection directly relates to the work of Arizona-based artist Elizabeth Z. Pineda, a recipient of the 2024 Lehmann Emerging Artists Award whose photographic images are now on view in the Museum’s contemporary art galleries. Pineda’s practice uses historical and untraditional photographic, printmaking, papermaking, and book-art processes to explore issues surrounding immigration, identity, displacement, and migrant deaths that occur in the Arizona desert.

This program is intended for audiences 18 years and older. Free.

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