The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin Story TC_Bestseller This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition includes an introduction by Brad Leithauser and features French flaps and deckle-edged paper

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Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis

A complex blend of adventure

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The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin Story TC_Bestseller This Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionA New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year "Top Pick" "American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,' Parker asserts, in this sweeping history." The New Yorker A revelatory work of Southwest history that recenters the American origin story two thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texas heart of Indigenous power and resistance, locus of Spanish colonization of North America, centuries