Just when you think you know every border story imaginable, Kimball Taylor shows up with this book of madness. It’s an audacious tale told with great elan. I loved everything about this story—mostly because it’s true. Can one bicycle change the world? Maybe not, but Kimball Taylor knows with love, no border is impermeable.
—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of THE DEVIL’S HIGHWAY: A True Story
Journalist Taylor deftly guides readers over la frontera and back again, many times, to unravel the story behind the thousands of bikes of all shapes and sized abandoned over the years along the Mexican-U.S. border . . . . a place that”s as complex as it is enchanting.—Publishers Weekly
Kimball Taylor’s gift at capturing human stories in a manner as captivating as fiction transforms this Quixotic journey into a landmark work on the recent history of human smuggling into the United States.
—World Literature Today
Kimball Taylor brings us along on a deeply researched and richly detailed journey to our southern border, and in the process enlightened me with every turn of the page. The Coyote’s Bicycle is not unlike a swift downhill mountain bike ride through no-man’s land.
—Eric Blehm, New York Times Best Selling Author of Legend, Fearless, and The Only Thing Worth Dying For
What an improbable, richly peopled saga! Kimball Taylor follows his hunch so deep into the world of polleros and the borderlands where they do their human smuggling that you’ll forget you’re reading non-fiction. El Indio, his clients, the authorities, and the harsh country they all do battle with—not to mention all the merry, ubiquitous bicycles rolling through the story—this completely original concoction reads like Latin American magical realism, except it’s reported-out and grounded in fact. Wonderful stuff.
—William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life and Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country
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