RaveTexas MonthlyAmbitious ... I can’t think of another work focused on the twentieth-century borderlands that attempts something at this scale ... Ulloa, who, unusually for a daily newspaper journalist, skillfully deploys a lyrical literary voice, portrays El Paso as an emblem of Texan and American imminence ... A deeply moving record of our fitful attempts to become a state and a nation that welcome people from all over the world.
