Winner of the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Fiction Book AwardWinner of the 2017 Writers' League of Texas Fiction Discovery PrizeLife in the parched landscape of El Paso is the setting for this book of stories about people navigating their way through dysfunctional lives with the help of friends and family--people like Moníca Montoya, a housewife and mother whose affair leaves her pregnant, causing her to revisit the legacy of her father, a man who maintained two separate families on either side of the Mexican-American border. In spite of their bad choices, the characters in this collection never give up.