The Trace is a masterful, poetic novel about a journey through
Mexico taken by a couple recovering from a world shattered. Driving
through the Chihuahua Desert, they retrace the route of
nineteenth-century American writer Ambrose Bierce (who disappeared
during the Mexican Revolution) and try to piece together their
lives after a devastating incident involving their adolescent son.
With tenderness and precision, Gander explores the intimacies of
their relationship as they travel through Mexican towns, through
picturesque canyons and desertcapes, on a journey through the the
heart of the Mexican landscape. Taking a shortcut through the
brutally hot desert home, their car overheats miles from nowhere,
the novel spinning out of control, with devastating consequences. .
. . Poet Forrest Gander's first novel As a Friend was acclaimed as
"profound and relentlessly beautiful (Rikki Ducornet). With The
Trace, Gander has accomplished another brilliant work, containing
unforgettable poetic descriptions of Mexico and a story both
violent and tender.
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