Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez

Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land

Noé Álvarez with Ramón de Ocampo (Narrator)

5 hours, 19 minutes first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction memoir sports adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

Description

The electrifying debut memoir of a son of working-class Mexican immigrants who fled a life of labour in fruit-packing plants to run in an Indigenous marathon from Canada to Guatemala, reimagining North America and his place in it.Growing up in Yak...

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Moods

reflective 69%
adventurous 64%
emotional 51%
inspiring 45%
informative 35%
challenging 25%
hopeful 21%
tense 14%
sad 10%
dark 4%

Pace

medium 53%
fast 32%
slow 14%

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3.5

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