No Place to Bury the Dead: Karina Sainz Borgo

Karina Sainz Borgo A Novel Paperback FICTION/Literary Winner of the Jan Michalski Prize and inspired by true accounts of the migrant crisis, a searing novel of loss and resilience that reimagines the border as a dreamlike purgatory bridging life and death. “A rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . In an unnamed Latin American country, a mysterious plague quickly spreads. Angustias Romero flees with her family, but their flight is cut tragically short when she loses both her children. Consumed by grief, she finds herself at the Third Country, an illegal borderland cemetery run by the larger-than-life Visitación Salazar. Here, Angustias is finally able to lay her children to rest and find refuge from the suffering and fear that has followed her. But as she begins to apprentice under Visitación, joining her mission to care for the dead, the cemetery becomes the focal point of a bitter land dispute with Alcides Abundio, the most feared landowner of the border. Caught in this power stru