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Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
By Noé Álvarez
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By Noé Álvarez
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Part running book and part personal narrative, Spirit Run is a resounding success in both departments. This is the story of Yakima native Noé Álvarez coming to terms with his place in America and what, if any, power he had to change it.
In this New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, the son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this "stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many landscapes of the Americas" (Catriona Menzies-Pike, author of The Long Run).
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple–packing plant alongside his mother, who “slouched over a conveyor bel...
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple–packing plant alongside his mother, who “slouched over a conveyor bel...
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