In his gripping and provocative debut anthropologist Jason De León sheds light on one of the
most pressing political issues of our time - the human consequences of US immigration policy.
The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert
of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the border from Mexico into
the United States. In harrowing detail De León chronicles the journeys of people who have made
dozens of attempts to cross the border and uncovers the stories of the objects and bodies left
behind in the desert.
