First published 2011
Sixteen-year-old Billy Parham traps a she-wolf, then sets out to return her to Mexico. But when he comes back, everything has changed. With his younger brother Boyd, Billy strikes out again, crossing into a world of bandits and fiestas. As the brothers fight a war as rageful as the one back home, one finds his destiny while the other arrives at his fate.
Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, adventure
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Hidalgo County, Hidalgo County (N.M.), Hidalgo County (Nuevo México), New Mexico
Period: 20th-century
437 pages · Paperback · Picador