SuitabookCrossing the Wire
Will Hobbs
- Reading
- Consider reading together or checking in at points involving physical danger, violence or death. You could pause afterwards to ask what felt most difficult for Victor and whether the story changed how you see his choices.
- Themes
- Survival and migration: Victor sets out to find work because his family’s livelihood is under threat, and encounters danger and setbacks while trying to cross the border. The journey is presented alongside harsh economic and political realities, without offering easy answers.
- Friendship: Victor reconnects with his friend Rico during his journey; Rico tricks him into crossing with drug smugglers. Rico’s deception places Victor’s friendship alongside the risks of his journey.
- Worth knowing
- The journey includes danger, hunger, extreme cold and heat, deportation, and exposure to violence and death. Victor’s family faces serious financial hardship, and drug smugglers are part of the plot.