Now I Surrender

by Alvaro Enrigue · 2023

Now I Surrender is Álvaro Enrigue’s sweeping, multi‑era novel that intertwines the desperate flight of a Mexican woman after an Apache raid, the pursuit of a legendary Geronimo by Mexican and American forces, and a contemporary family’s journey through the borderlands. Part epic, part alt‑Western, the narrative blends myth and history, offering a baroque, anti‑imperialist meditation on liberty, violence, and the lingering ghosts of the Mexico‑US frontier. Enrigue’s post‑modern, literary style stitches together historical and fictional characters across centuries, creating a vivid elegy for a vanished way of life.