The defeated returning migrant/ Luis Mateo Diez
The internal canon of his gaze and memory had been erased in the long years of absence, and to this had contributed the conviction that Celama represented nothing else, beyond nostalgia and abandonment, than a misty past full of uncertainties and suffering. The peace of the Plain was more precisely the peace of poverty, and in the tired observation of the defeated returning migrant, it was disorder that structured those towns forsaken by God.
THE MONARCH’S FLIGHT/ New Edition
In the late 20th century, amidst America’s growing reliance on Mexican immigrants, a devoutly religious married man finds his life upended while pursuing the American dream. Determined to provide a better future for his family, he grapples with cultural barriers and injustices, having left his seminary life behind. However, as his wife and newborn prepare to join him, an unexpected wrench is thrown into his carefully constructed plans—he unexpectedly falls deeply in love with another woman.
