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The scrublands of South Texas, the comfortable coastland of the Gulf, a cinderblock flophouse close to the produce areas of South Florida: each one is borderlands of spilled blood and combined blood, of decades cast in disappointment, battle, and desire. In this remarkable assortment of short fictions, the acclaimed writer of In the Rogue Blood and Red Grass River trips from the nineteenth-century Mexican frontier for the borderlands of present in eight memorable stories of love, revenge, and violence.Within these pages we match Don Sebastian Cabrillo Mayor Cortes y Mendoza, a strong and iron-willed landowner, today decreased to howling at the moon from behind madhouse pubs; an illegal immigrant whose supply of love from a problematic elegance will replicate equally in his potential and in his previous; a Texas lady born right into a lifestyle that will possibly Destroy her or have a lifetime to endure; and a lot more of the folks occupying the Borderlands. Truthful, daring, and gentle, these wonderful tales represent a few of the finest writing in one of the very unique and genuine sounds in modern American fiction.