Winner of the 2022 Américo Paredes Literary Arts Prize for Fiction the River Runs presents life along the Texas-Mexico border through the eyes of border dwellers with fears, anxieties, expectations, and the hopes and dreams of those whose lives are inextricably bound by the geopolitics of place. As a backdrop to the many stories, including forays into surreal and speculative fiction, he offers the complexities of life where the undocumented denizens of the Rio Grande Valley or El Paso coexist and manage to live and survive alongside Anglo and US-born Mexicans.