Brownsville the diviners and most heartbreaking work —

and most heartbreaking work — essays like his famous cruise-ship piece

the newest addition to the flock

After years of wandering

Here are not only the masterpieces—the Gettysburg Address

and cops who think they control her

Brownsville the diviners and most heartbreaking work —"Terrific stories Just about perfect" (Entertainment Weekly): Brownsville is the collection that established Oscar Casares as one of the leading voices in the literature of the modern Southwest. At the country's edge, on the Mexican border, Brownsville, Texas, is a town like many others. It is a place where people work hard to create better lives for their children, where people bear grudges against their neighbors, where love blossoms only to fade,