The CrossingA New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year Top Pick American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest, Parker asserts, in this sweeping history. The New Yorker A revelatory work of Southwest history that recenters the American origin story two thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texasheart of Indigenous power and resistance, locus of Spanish colonization of North America, centuries long hub

constructed our present

and so on back to the first primordial organism

When Regan gets pranked

and the power of art

Most unfortunately of all

With his characteristic blend of scientific inquiry and philosophical musings

he seizes the chance to claim the woman he loves

Resistance Women is an enthralling

where Scarpetta investigates a shipwreck

and that neither one is telling the truth

which stretches down into a beautiful apple orchard

Now her father’s tragic death has brought her home to face a mountain of secrets