WHAT AUTHORS AND CRITICS SAY
Hunting Season: “Compelling and complex … Told with the authority of a much-respected journalist, whose own experience as an immigrant lends this book the depth, insights, and poignancy that only someone of her experience can convincingly—and rightfully—convey.”
— Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize–winning
WHAT AUTHORS AND CRITICS SAY
Hunting Season: “An account that is as unflinching as it is important. Both an incisive reconstruction of a heartbreaking murder and an unsparing diagnosis of a national malady …with Hunting Season Ojito has done truth an invaluable service. Extraordinary.”
— Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
International Latino Book Awards
Finalist 2014
Hunting Season
NONFICTION
A complex and heartbreaking true story. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mirta Ojito uncovers the true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration.
What is the book about?
In November 2008, 37-year-old Marcelo Lucero, an unassuming worker at a dry cleaner’s and an undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was attacked and murdered by a group of teenagers as he walked the streets of the Long Island village of Patchogue accompanied by a childhood friend. The attackers were out “hunting for beaners.” Some of the kids later confessed that chasing, harassing, and assaulting defenseless “beaners”—their slur for Latinos—was part of their weekly entertainment.
In recent years, Latinos have become the target of hate crimes as the nation wrestles with swelling numbers of undocumented immigrants. Public figures fan the flames and advance their careers by spewing anti-immigration rhetoric. In death, Lucero became a symbol of everything that was wrong with our broken immigration system: fewer opportunities to obtain travel visas to the United States, porous borders, a growing dependency on cheap labor, and the rise of bigotry.
Book Details
Format: Hardcover
Published by: Beacon Press
Published: 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0181-3
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