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• Now I Surrender

  a Novel

  Enrigue, Alvaro, 1969-

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  This is a historical, meta-fiction book about the so-called Apache wars, with a special focus on the Mexican side of that historical period. It's a brilliant, heartbreaking, and sometimes ironically funny book (it's hard not to laugh at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brother Brontë

  a Novel

  Flores, Fernando A., 1982-

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  This is a futuristic dystopian novel set in Three Rivers, Texas, which is about a 2 hour 46 minute drive from the border. There are tigers, sisterhood, and more.

• Salt Bones

  a Novel

  Givhan, Jennifer

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  This is a poetically-written thriller set near the Salton Sea in California, which is close to the border with Mexicali.

• The Border Between Us

  Ruiz, Rudy

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  This book is a fictionalization of the author's experience growing up in Brownsville, Texas.

• The Witches of El Paso

  Jaramillo, Luis

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  This book takes place in three different time periods in El Paso, one of them being when El Paso was part of New Spain.

• Malas

  a Novel

  Fuentes, Marcela (Fiction writer)

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  From Bibliocommons: "A novel with alternating timelines in which the consequences of one old woman's questionable curse reverberate through the generations of a Tejano family"--

• Where We Come From

  a Novel

  Casares, Oscar, 1964-

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  From Bibliocommons: "From the acclaimed author Brownsville and Amigoland--a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Valleyesque

  Stories

  Flores, Fernando A., 1982-

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  From Bibliocommons: "Short stories set in the cracks of the Texas-Mexico borderland"--

• The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez

  a Novel

  Ruiz, Rudy

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  Here is a description of the book adapted from the jacket: " In the border town of La Frontera, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House of Broken Angels

  Urrea, Luis Alberto

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  This novel is based on a true story. It's about a living-wake for a dying family patriarch in San Diego, whose mother dies that same week. There are elements of magical realism, and lots of Urrea's typical sense of humor.

• Huizache Women

  Gonzalez, Estella

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  One of the parts of the book is set in El Paso.