Now I Surrender: A Novel

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A women's desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the MexicoUS border war.

Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of charactersm both historical and purely fictional,Now I Surrenderradically recasts the story of how the West was "won." In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husbands ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers hes on the trail of a more dramatic abduction. Decades later, with political ambitions on the line, the American and Mexican militaries try to maneuver Geronimo, the most legendary of Apache warriors, into surrender. In our own day, a family travels through the region in search of a truer version of the past.

Part epic, part alt-Western,Now I Surrenderis lvaro Enrigues most expansive and impassioned novel yet.It weaves past and present, myth and history, into a searing elegy for a way of life that was an incarnation of true libertyand an homage to the spark in us that still thrills to its memory.

Story Locale:US-Mexico borderlands in the second half of the 19th century and the present day