Friday, March 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 CLICK HERE TO RSVP _**RSVP is recommended but not required. Entry and seating are first-come, first-served. RSVPs do not guarantee entry to a full event.**_ **A woman’s desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico–US border wars.** 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. **Álvaro Enrigue** is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novel is _You Dreamed of Empires._ His work has appeared in _The New York Times_, the _London Review of Books_, _El País_, and _n+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. **Vanessa Angélica Villarreal** was born in the Rio Grande Valley to Mexican immigrants. She is the author of _Beast Meridian_, which received a Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination, and the Texas Institute of Letters John A. Robertson Award. She was a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, and her work has appeared in _The New York Times_, _Harper’s Bazaar_, _The Paris Review_, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles with her son.