"Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world. Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for...

On the Fourth of July, just as fireworks are about to go off in Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor and his new bride, Rainy Bisonette, listen to a desperate voicemail left by Rainy's son, Peter. The message is garbled and full of static, but they hear Peter confess to the murder of someone named Rodriguez. When they try to contact him, they discover that his phone has gone dead. The following morning, Cork and Rainy fly to Coronado County in southern...

It is a perilous profession, similar to the work of a bounty hunter, pursuing often times desperate and dangerous individuals for pay. But with one major difference: Chance Gambel brings in his quarry alive, not draped over a saddle. He is hired to search for witnesses to crimes so that they might testify in trials throughout the frontier territories of the American Southwest, circa 1885. Rarely aware of the consequences of his assignments, Chance...