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

239 pages first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir sports adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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The son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this "stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many landscapes of th...

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Moods

reflective 68%
adventurous 64%
emotional 50%
inspiring 46%
informative 34%
challenging 25%
hopeful 22%
tense 13%
sad 11%
dark 4%

Pace

medium 53%
fast 32%
slow 13%

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3.5

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