Born in Texas but raised illegally in Mexico, Gabriel Olague offers a gripping, often humorous, and deeply personal memoir of life on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. In The Adventures of a Dryback, he flips the immigration narrative upside down—telling the story not of crossing into America, but of being an American who crossed illegally into Mexico.

Through seven powerful chapters filled with real-life stories—some heartbreaking, some hilarious—Gabriel delivers sharp insights into the complexities of immigration, cultural identity, and survival. From his near-death birth experience to eating a gasket in a mechanic’s shop, from being kicked out of a rock band on the eve of a record deal to self-deporting at 17, this book is part memoir, part manifesto.

With an engineer’s logic and a humanitarian’s heart, Olague proposes a bold new solution to America’s immigration crisis—one rooted in lived experience and practical thinking, not politics.

This is not just a book. It’s a movement.

A must-read for every undocumented worker, immigrant family, and policymaker.