Now I Surrender // A Novel

A womans desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the MexicoUS border wars.

Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional,Now I Surrenderradically 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 husbands ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers hes 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 Surrenderis lvaro Enrigues 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 libertyand an homage to the spark in us that still thrills to its memory.

lvaro Enrigueis a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novel isYou Dreamed of Empires.His work has appeared inThe New York Times, theLondon Review of Books,El Pas, andn+1, among other publications. A former Fellow at the Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American Literature at Hofstra University and lives with his family in New York City.

Natasha Wimmers translations include lvaro EnriguesYou Dreamed of EmpiresandSudden Deathand Roberto BolaosThe Savage Detectivesand2666. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publish Date: March 3, 2026
• Pages: 464
• Language: English
• Type: Hardback
• EAN/UPC: 9780593084076
• Dimensions: 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.2 inches | 1.4 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Historical Fiction, PopularFiction, Literary Fiction