A Mexican woman flees into the desert after an Apache raid on her dead husband’s ranch. A lieutenant colonel chasing cattle rustlers realizes he’s tracking an abduction instead. Decades on, the American and Mexican armies maneuver Geronimo toward a surrender both sides need for their own political reasons. And in the present, a writer drives the borderlands with his family looking for a truer version of all of it. Enrigue braids the four, uses different names for the same people because everybody out there had several, and makes the case that what ended in Apachería wasn’t a people so much as a kind of freedom nobody has had since. Translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Now I Surrender