Now I Surrender

Now I SurrenderNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST AND LITHUB! "This gifted Mexican writer delivers novels that are steeped in history and have a hallucinatory sense of pageantry He's one of the best we have." Dwight Garner, The New York Times A woman's desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico US border wars. Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical

"This gifted Mexican writer ... delivers novels that are steeped in history and have a hallucinatory sense of pageantry ... He's one of the best we have." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times

A woman's desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico-US border wars.

Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrender radically 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 husband's ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he's 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 Surrender is