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Bloomsbury presents Terrestrial, written by Cristina Rivera Garza, read by Victoria Villareal. FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LILIANA'S INVINCIBLE SUMMER AND DEATH TAKES ME We come from far away and, all of a sudden, we no longer know where we are going. In Terrestrial, we follow...

In a desert dotted with war-torn towns, Lázaro and Juan are two soldiers from opposing camps who abandon the war and, while fleeing, become lovers and discover a dark truth. Vicente Barrera, a salesman who swept into the lives of women who both hated and revered him, spends his last days tied up like a mad dog. A morgue worker, Salvador, gets lost in the desert and hallucinating from heat and thirst, mistakes the cactus for the person he loves.

A fiercely poetic, tenderly observed portrait of young women’s travels on the fringes of Mexico and the United States, by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Liliana’s Invincible Summer One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Most Anticipated Books of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Most Anticipated...