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Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land
Bottom of the pile
21
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
6/100Critics
35/100Scholars
Author:
Noé Ãlvarez
Publisher:
Catapult
Date:
March 3, 2020
The debut memoir of a son of working-class Mexican immigrants who fled a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala, challenging himself to re-imagine North America and his place in it.
What The Reviewers Say
... eloquently written.
Álvarez writes movingly of his mother's endless shifts at the apple-packing plant and his father's backbreaking labor in fruit picking and construction.
... lyrical if uneven.
Spirit Run is a very different kind of running book.
