I hadn’t heard of this novel until it was nominated on the released ballot for the Pulitzer Prize, which is already a weird system. You might guess this, but I like to read the nominees ahead of time. Anyway, I made some dumb assumptions about this novel going in. I figured that in 2018, a writer with a Hispanic last name with a cover overlooking a desert might be writing about border issues. Unfounded assumption! This is a book about a larger than life Swedish […]