Gold Medal for Best Novel - Adventure or Drama in English, International
Latino Book Awards
Recommended YA Fiction List, In the Margins Book Awards
Top Ten Titles of the Year, In the Margins Book Awards
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, Foreword Reviews finalist
No Country for Old Men meets Contagion in this story of three
teenagers on the run, carrying a great menace, and chased by a greater
evil.
Three teenagers are traveling northeast in a navy blue Ford pickup. Turi
has fled his abusive family to see the beautiful New England landscape
he's always dreamed about. Arnulfo is undocumented and wants only to
find someplace to work and live. Molly seeks a new life far away from
her nowhere Missouri town. Turi and Arnulfo are best friends. Molly and
Turi are falling in love.
But for all their innocence, violence follows the trio at every turn.
The mean viejito who owns the truck wants it back. The narco who hid a
deadly shipment in the truck really, really wants it back. And the
imperturbable hitman the narco sends after the trio will kill anyone who
stands in his way. Turi, Arnulfo, and Molly might outrun the carnage
that's stalking them ... but they can't elude the chaos they're
carrying, no matter how far they go.
A literary novel with the propulsion of a thriller, a genre joyride
written in the prose of a master, Nobody's Pilgrims both offers and
questions the possibility of escape in America -- like Huckleberry
Finn with a gritty frontera twist.
