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    The Jaguar's Children: A Novel
    The Jaguar's Children: A Novel
    The Jaguar's Children: A Novel
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    The Jaguar's Children: A Novel

    By John Vaillant

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    This “extraordinary” novel of one man’s border crossing reveals “a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the thirst to be free” (NPR).
     
    Héctor is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers’ money for a mechanic and have not returned.
     
    Héctor finds a name in his friend César’s phone: AnniMac. A name with an American number. He must reach her, both for rescue and to pass along the message César has come so far to deliver. But are his messages going through?
     
    Over four days, as water and food run low, Héctor tells how he came to this desperate place. His story takes us from Oaxaca—its rich culture, its rapid change—to the dangers of the border, exposing the tangled ties between Mexico and El Norte. And it reminds us of the power of storytelling and the power of hope, as Héctor fights to ensure his message makes it out of the truck and into the world.
     
    Both an outstanding suspense novel and an arresting window into the relationship between two great cultures, The Jaguar’s Children shows how deeply interconnected all of us are.
     
    “This is what novels can do—illuminate shadowed lives, enable us to contemplate our own depths of kindness, challenge our beliefs about fate. Vaillant’s use of fact to inspire fiction brings to mind a long list of powerful novels from the past decade or so: What is the What by Dave Eggers; The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif; The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult.” —Amanda Eyre Ward, The New York Times Book Review
     
    “[A] heartbreaker . . . Wrenching . . . with a voice fresh and plangent enough to disarm resistance.” —The Boston Globe
     
    “Fearless.” —The Globe and Mail
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 27, 2015
    ISBN9780544290082
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    • 4/5
      A riveting read from inside a...well, you'll have to read it. But be ready to explore some dark places through the eyes of an undocumented immigrant. Beautifully written; fearless, clear-eyed questions about the way things are.
    • 5/5
      Wow!I'm a prolific reader, and it is a rare book that knocks the wind out of me...a rare book that I have to put down sometimes because I'm overwhelmed and need to remember to breathe. This is such a book.I shouldn't be surprised that I loved this book, and I also really liked Mr. Vaillant's two nonfiction books, The Gold Spruce and The Tiger. In the Jaguar's Children, we have the story of Hector (Tito) Gonzales and his friend Cesar Ramirez Santiago who are trying to sneak across the U.S.-Mexican border. Cesar is running from certain death as he has uncovered information the government doesn't want known. Hector is running towards a better life in el Norte, having no future in his homeland. Mr. Vaillant brings us deep into the lives and feelings of his characters so that the story becomes riveting. I don't want to say too much about the story as I fear spoilers would be inevitable. Let me, instead, give you two quotes that I found especially poignant:"When those Greeks were hiding in that horse they wanted to attack the city, and when the terrorists were hiding in those planes they wanted to attack the country, but when Mexicanos hide in a truck, what do they want do do? They want to pick lettuce. And cut your grass." (Page 11)"...but it's hard to be hard, especially when someone's telling you that the world that made you is being killed in front of your eyes and what can you do but wait for some men you don't know and don't trust to take your life in their hands and drive you someplace you never been before where all you have is your uncle's phone number and with this you're supposed to make some new kind of life because the old one is broken and you don't know how to fix it except to do what everyone else is doing and go somewhere far away with bad food, cold weather and people who hate you. You know what I'm saying? What would you do?" (Page 145)Read this book!
    • 4/5
      The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant is a literary thriller whose intense story grabs the reader immediately. Hector, a young Mexican is fleeing his homeland in the hope of a better life in America. He and his friend Cesar have paid the smugglers or “coyotes” for space inside a sealed water tanker truck. Sitting in the damp, pitch black truck is terrible, but they console themselves that it will only be for a few hours. But something goes terribly wrong and the people in the truck are abandoned in the desert, totally sealed in the dark truck and left to die. When the truck came to an abrupt stop, Cesar was injured and lies dying from a head injury, while Hector, tries to contact help on a cell phone, but with little hope that his messages will reach anyone. While Hector tries to remain positive, he thinks back over his life and how he came to be in this horrible situation. But slowly he is losing his will to survive and hope is fading quickly. This book brings the voice of a dying boy, trapped in an unbearable situation to life. These people are trying to come north in the hope for a future as there is no future where they originated. What they have found: suffocation, intense thirst, unbearable high temperatures during the day and frigid conditions at night pushes any moral complexity the reader may have about the issue of illegal immigrants aside. These are fellow humans suffering a terrible fate. What makes this novel all the more terrifying is that it is based on a true story of a situation much like this one that occured outside Victoria, Texas in 2003. A difficult read, but one that is very current with the conditions that exist in the world today.
    • 5/5
      "It is a tradition in the pueblo to bury the baby's plancenta in the dirt floor of the house. It means you will always come back. For most of us it is a root into a place, but for my father I think it is a chain."This book packs a punch. It is heart-breaking and poetic and powerful. I might have to bump my rating up to the full five stars because I. Cannot. Stop. Thinking. About. It. I don't even know where to begin, really. It's about illegal immigration. And desire. And dreams. And it is also about how greed and small-mindedness make these things mostly incompatible. Héctor tells us his story and it begins inside of a water truck - a group of illegal immigrants hoping to travel from Mexico to America have been sealed inside a tanker truck which has been abandoned. The journey was only supposed to take a few hours, so they have not come prepared to be trapped for days. It is dark and dank, and the temperature varies from beyond hot to unbearably cold. I mean, it's a metal tank. The sides are rounded, so they cannot even stand up or change position easily. It's a nightmare, and as someone who suffers from claustrophobia, it is beyond the realm of my imagination how they could even begin to cope with the situation without completely panicking. I had to read in bits and pieces at first because it was too much. Héctor is traveling with his friend César, who has been hurt, and as the story unfolds, we learn that César's phone has become their lifeline - or it would be if they could reach anyone. To keep himself grounded and remain cognizant, Héctor begins telling his story and also César's story, and the stories become bigger than the moment because they are not just the stories of an individual but of a people. "But in here, we have no trail to follow and no one is finding us. So how do we keep going? In the morning, my mother makes the fire from nothing, only by blowing on the gray ash. You can't see it from the outside, but the fire is in there waiting for someone to notice, waiting for some reason to burn again. Waiting - en español "to wait" is the same as "to hope" - esperar. Besides chingar, esperar is the other official verb of Mexico, and it is what I do for you all this time - all these hours and days and words."
    • 5/5
      Desperate to escape their dire circumstances in Mexico, Hector & Cesar pay for passage to America and allow themselves (with great trepidation) to be sealed inside an old water–tank truck.As drinking water runs out and people start to die, Hector finds a number on Cesar’s phone for Annie Mac and leaves messages for her on her voice mail, hoping that they will transmit when there “are bars”.Before the truck can reach its destination, it breaks down and the driver and his assistant abandon the truck in a desert wilderness area.The tension in this story is exquisite. Will the driver return? Will anyone survive? What will Annie Mac do when she receives these increasingly despairing messages?This story is especially relevant today with the issue of non-legal immigration across the USA’s southern border being such a hot button topic. Warning: there are many words and phrases, even entire sentences in Spanish. If, like me, you know no Spanish, this can impinge a little on reading enjoyment, although even I got the gist of such remarks as “And a dead indio will be something to discuss at la comida.”I highly recommend The Jaguar’s Children.5 stars
    • 5/5
      You've read the newspaper stories, seen accounts and shows on the news and television - the desperate attempts of those from other countries attempting to cross the border into the United States - illegally. John Vaillant's new book (and his first work of fiction), The Jaguar's Children, starts with that as the premise, but then goes in a direction I hadn't expected.Hector, his friend Cesar and some others leave Mexico sealed into the tank of a water truck. But when the truck breaks down, the 'coyotes' promise they'll return soon with a mechanic and leave the group sealed inside.....Hector finds an American number on Cesar's phone and texts it, but there is no reply. When the signal dies, he instead begins to record a series of messages - perhaps to send if the signal comes back.....or if the coyotes don't return, someone will know their story.Oh boy, it was disturbing to imagine being trapped in a metal tank, somewhere in the sun, with limited food and water - and a load of desperate people. And this is what I thought Vaillant's story would be about - but it was so much more.Vaillant takes the novel beyond the confines of the tanker. The Jaguar's Children is amazing storytelling on so many levels - the nail biting tension of those trapped in the truck, the story of the Hector's life and his people - both immediate and on a larger scale as the vibrant history and legacy of the Zapotec are woven into his recordings. There's much food for thought as GMOs also figure into another plot thread.It's impossible to read this book without examining and questioning the relationship between cultures, countries and politics. The Jaguar's Children is all the more compelling and intimate told in Hector's single narrative.And throughout it all, the reader wonders if they will be rescued......A compelling, thought provoking, richly written read.
    • 5/5
      This story is hard to read but it is well worth the effort. Several Mexicans are trying to escape to El Norte in the tank of a water tanker which runs into mechanical problems. This is the principle story as told by Hector to AniMac with an IPhone. Hector (Tito) is escaping to the USA with his friend Cesar but Cesar has suffered a brain injury because of a fall.There are several other stories being told as the drama inside the tank unfolds. These are the stories of Mexico's loss of meaningful work or lives for its people, the corruption of agribusiness, the running of immigrants by coyotes, the belief in the Catholic Church, all the feasts and festivals. Primarily it is about the loss of innocence and the terrible lives that these people face. The proud history of the Oaxaca people and their ancestors is the represented by the Jaguar. The story is visceral and one feels trapped inside the tanker with Hector as his life slips away. Extremely well written and good book.
    • 4/5
      The Jaguar's Children is an admirable book. The US-Mexican border has the greatest disparity of wealth of any border in the world - there are many terrible consequences. Vaillant shows a couple: Human trafficking, GMO corn, corruption. And wraps them in the voice of Mexican culture and history, while humanizing the illegal immigrant. It's a very old story with modern chrome details, as the clever frame story reveals. It has been compared to Life of Pi, though I don't think it's as good because of it's didactic bent towards teaching us (non-Mexcians) about Mexican culture and current issues. Nevertheless I thought the frame story and its many analogies is well suited to fiction and says something about illegal immigration that would be hard to convey in non-fiction.
    • 4/5
      I would hope that even the loudest opponent of illegal immigration would agree that no one deserves Héctor's experience in that water truck. While the book can be a tricky read if you don't speak or read Spanish, the author brilliantly blends Héctor's past and present. This book broke my heart but I hope a lot of people read it.
    • 5/5
      Just finished this book, Jaguar's Children! Wow, it was very interesting, full of Mexican history, cultural atmosphere, and lots of tension. It was intense, often making the reader uncomfortable. It had many stories within the story. Great writing! John Vaillant is coming to our local writers festival in a few weeks and it will be wonderful to hear how this novel was born. When you're sitting on that beach in Mexico as a tourist you may not get the glimpse of culture and history that this book gives an amazing window on.Quotes"I can tell you, the sound of a gun in the street is different from that in the forest. There is only one animal who is hunted in the street.""I'm as chickenshit as the rest of them, sitting there pretending this is only normal-just like at home when the father beats the mother and everyone sits down to la comeda like nothing happened, and then soon hates himself for only eating, for doing nothing to defend the one who feeds him."" The night is a different country with a different language, but I feel I understand it."Many years ago I read Coyotes a Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens by Ted Conover (1987) also a very good book that gives an understanding of the experience and exodus north of Mexicans trying to create a better life. We visited Sasabe, Arizona (on the border) by horseback years ago and saw the chain link fence (high and long) and glimpsed at the hardship a bit further north in Brown Canyon for these desperate people hiding and fleeing.
    • 4/5
      Filled with intense emotions and desperation The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant is a deeply emotional and intense look at the life through the eyes of Héctor, one of thirteen illegals left for dead in a sealed water truck, the reader is told over a course of four days what brought Héctor from Oaxaca to the treacherous border crossing into El Norte. Héctor’s thoughts are transcribed into his friend César’s phone. The Jaguar’s Children is a deeply atmospheric, historically rich, and emotional suspense inspired by actual facts. Vaillant takes the reader deep into the history and culture of not only Mexico, but of those drawn to attempt the dangerous border crossing. The Jaguar’s Children explores the relationship of the two cultures, humanity, and the interconnectedness of everyone. I highly recommend this deeply suspenseful and riveting book to all readers, especially book discussion groups.
    • 5/5
      FictionJohn VaillantThe Jaguar’s Children: A NovelHoughton Mifflin Harcourt978-0-544-29008-2, ebook, 280 pgs., $12.99 (also available in hardcover, Audible, and audio CD)January 2015 Thu Apr 5— 08: 31 [text]hello i am sorry to bother you but i need your assistance— i am hector— cesars friend— its an emergency now for cesar— are you in el norte? i think we are also— arizona near nogales or sonoita— since yesterday we are in this truck with no one coming— we need water and a doctor— and a torch for cutting metal The Jaguar’s Children is journalist and author (who cites as sources Luis Alberto Urrea and Charles Bowden; how could you go wrong?) John Vaillant’s devastatingly powerful first novel. Mexicans and Nicaraguans, men, women, and children, bakers, students and scientists, have paid coyotes (“They were talking fast all the time, but not as fast as their eyes”) to provide safe passage into the United States, welded inside a water truck (“like a bucket of crabs with the lid on and no place to go”). As the book begins, they’ve been abandoned for two days in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona (“la via dolorosa”). Héctor (“Pollo is chicken cooked on a plate— a dinner for coyotes. This is who is speaking to you now.”) finds a contact, AnniMac, with a United States area code in his friend César’s phone and tries to reach her. In an attempt to comfort himself and save his sanity, Héctor takes us with him as he “escapes into his head,” making audio files as he talks to AnniMac about his home. Héctor talks about his family, Mexican history and geography, religion and mythology, culture and sociology, as he describes the diversity of Mexico, not a monolith, and these people as individuals, not stereotypes. The Jaguar’s Children is full of rich description. A market in Oaxaca: “It is not even four, but already the first trucks are coming in from the coast with fish and oranges, seashells and coconuts, maybe a special order of turtle eggs hiding in the belly of a tuna, or a crocodile skull with all its teeth. And from the south they come with coffee and mangoes, chocolate, iguanas and velvet huipils, and from the Sierra with calla lilies, beef, pots in all sizes still scarred by the fire that made them.” Vaillant’s imagery is both profound in its simplicity and brutal in its sophistication. “More and more the tank is feeling and smelling like the intestine of some animal, slowly digesting us.” Héctor watches time in the form of the cell phone’s battery life and thinks of his beloved grandfather. “Time, you know. Minutes. When my abuelo was young he didn’t know what a minute was because in Zapotec there aren’t any minutes, only days and seasons and harvests.” There is even humor in the midst of tragedy. When she [Héctor’s mother] was tired of listening to me, she said, “Héctorcito? How long have there been these Transformers? And I said, “Always, Mamá. Since I was young.” And she said, “Yes, well, that is not so long. Our beloved Jesus has been a Transformer for two thousand years.” The Jaguar’s Children is harrowing and beautiful, brilliant and exhausting. The concept is inspired, the plot simple and stark and terrible, the pacing inexorable. The ending is wholly unexpected in the great tradition of magical realism. This is the total package.Originally published in Lone Star Literary Life.

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    The Jaguar's Children - John Vaillant

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