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02920aam a22003255 4500 001 8D5E2EC4FF4C11ECB8A79A2B3DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220709010115 008 210329s2021 xx 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1646220536 020 $a 9781646220533 040 $d SILO 050 $a CT 082 $a 920 100 1 $a Ãlvarez, Noé $9 112340 245 00 $a Spirit Run : $b A 6,000-mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land 264 1 $a United States $b Random House Inc $c 2021 300 $a 218 p. ; 520 $a 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 Ãlvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who âslouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives.â A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Ãlvarez struggled to fit in.At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dené, Secwépemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono Oâodham, Seri, Purépecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, Ãlvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits. He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fearâdangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lionâbut also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities.Running through mountains, deserts, and cities, and through the Mexican territory his parents left behind, Ãlvarez forges a new relationship with the land, and with the act of running, carrying with him the knowledge of his parentsâ migration, andâagainst all odds in a society that exploits his body and rejects his spiritâthe dream of a liberated future. 610 0 $a United States $9 11888 650 0 $a Long-distance running $x Anecdotes. $z North America 650 0 $a Long-distance running $v Biography. $z United States 650 0 $a Indians of North America $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Indians of North America $v Biography. $9 112352 650 0 $9 47223 $a Native Americans 651 0 $9 14305 $a North America 655 7 $2 lcgft $a Anecdotes $9 38248 941 $a 1 952 $l CZPD706 $d 20220709010354.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8D5E2EC4FF4C11ECB8A79A2B3DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search