Hector, a young Zapotec, is left to die in the sealed tank of a water truck after a border crossing goes wrong. With his friend Cesar slipping away, a single phone connection becomes Hector’s only lifeline and a way to tell the story of how he arrived there.
The narrative moves between the desperate present and an older Mexico: family memory, a jaguar icon passed down by an archaeologist, and the corn myths that shape a people's identity. Cesar’s research into genetically modified corn reveals a corporate threat with deep cultural and economic stakes for indigenous communities.
Part literary thriller, part mythic meditation, the novel interrogates migration, science, and cultural survival with urgency and quiet power.
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