RaveLatino Book ReviewIn The Distance, like Pynchon\'s Mason & Dixon, relies on a foreigner with a noble mission to shed light on the often perverse values that underlied America\'s Westward expansion ... The pacing is excellent throughout, both on a paragraph and chapter level. Also, Diaz has dug deep into historical archives to pepper the story with details about life at the time - from how to load and fire a singleshot musket to building a mound hut and digging an underground cave bunker ... The carefully constructed sentences are long in length, and reflect the wanderings of Hawk. This may test some reader\'s patience, but they don\'t distract from this tale of isolation and frustration ... a methodical, haunting glance at the true dark heart of the antebellum American West.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
PositiveThe Latino Book Review\"... engrossing ... Fajardo-Anstine skillfully weaves in aspects of Latinx identity - Spanish terms, attire, cooking - with bursts of knowledge about the prejudices and discrimination that stalked the Old West and still linger to this day.
Stories that bravely reinvent the Wild West narrative by lifting up Latinx women and portraying callused hand cowboys not as heroes, but as villains and perpetrators of violence. \
