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Now I Surrender: An Event with Álvaro Enrigue

April 17 @ 7:00 pm8:00 pm

Join Álvaro Enrigue, author of best selling You Dreamed of Empires, discussing his newest release Now I Surrender. 

  • Each ticket includes either a copy of the featured book or a $5 WBB Gift Card
  • Copies of the books will be available for purchase at the event. (while supplies last)
  • Please RSVP with Book +Seat to ensure you receive a copy.
  • A signing will follow the talk.

Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrender radically recasts the story of how the West was “won.” In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband’s ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he’s on the trail of a more dramatic abduction. Decades later, with political ambitions on the line, the American and Mexican militaries try to maneuver Geronimo, the most legendary of Apache warriors, into surrender. In our own day, a family travels through the region in search of a truer version of the past.

Part epic, part alt-Western, Now I Surrender is Álvaro Enrigue’s most expansive and impassioned novel yet. It weaves past and present, myth and history into a searing elegy for a way of life that was an incarnation of true liberty—and an homage to the spark in us that still thrills to its memory.

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  • The World’s Borough Bookshop, 34-06 73rd St, Jackson Heights, NY 11372, USA