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Posted inLiterature

Western Lit: Novel ‘The Jaguar’s Children’ Tells the Tale of a Border Crossing Gone Wrong

John Vaillant, the Canadian author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce—two nonfiction books that delved into the darker aspects of our relationship with nature—now delivers an unflinching novel, his first. The Jaguar’s Children opens in the back of an empty water truck, where Hector, an undocumented immigrant, languishes with his injured friend César and […]

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