Across the Wire Concluded

Upon completing "Across the Wire," I decided to do some further research on how the general public received this book after publication. I came across an article, which I will link below, that reviews the novel. Here, the book is described as a "rare form of newspaper journalism," which I found to be very interesting.

While, stylistically, nonfiction novels can be seen as accounts of happenings, or storytelling for example, there can be works that deviate from this traditional "reporting" style, and instead transcend what even fiction novels can describe. Although I was taken through Professor Urea's life during the many stories and narrations of other families and individuals encountered that changed him forever, I always felt a sense of personal spirituality within the words. They seem to lift off the page, deviating from reporting form, and instead taking on the beauty of poetry. Hence, I do not find newspaper journalism here, but instead the kind of writing that I look for in my traditional fictional novel that has the ability to transport the reader beyond the story.

Needless to say, I was transported.

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-10/news/vw-1374_1_luis-alberto-urrea.