Crossers (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

"An ambitious, wonderful novel that illuminates the modern U.S.-Mexican border." --Chicago Tribune

"Crossers is a novel of grief and recovery, a love story, a thriller, but it is most of all a novel about a place, one that can break your heart and make it soar." --St. Petersburg Times

"A complex story, unfolding in varying viewpoints, all of them as rich and real as a home movie." --The Dallas Morning News

"[A] remarkably ambitious book that packs a meaty, multi-generational story with enough scope, insight and realism to illuminate the modern U.S.--Mexican border. . . . Enthralling." --The Washington Post Book Review

"Caputo gives us characters with credibility and individuality. . . . An intense, clear-sighted account of the times in which we live, of 9/11, the Iraq war, the 'war on drugs' and the conflict over illegal immigration. Caputo succeeds in showing how our contemporary paranoia and homeland insecurity are rooted in the inescapable past." --San Francisco Chronicle

"A satisfying story, with memorable characters moving against a backdrop of beauty and brutality." --The Boston Globe

"A historical story line involving the grandfather of Gil and Blaine, a legendary Old West lawman and killer . . . [is] so strong that it could be Mark Twain." --Los Angeles Times

"Caputo tells Ben's story with power and verisimilitude. . . . The reason I enjoyed Crossers as much as I did . . . is that it hints at how difficult it can be to draw conclusions--about evil, about Ben, and above all about the crossers themselves." --William T. Vollmann, The New York Times Book Review

"Caputo . . . has long focused his fiction on the moral ambiguities that have accompanied violent conflicts around the world--Vietnam, the Sudan, Iraq. With Crossers, he brings the war home, powerfully evoking an America marked by complexities, contradictions and an uncomfortable relationship with its own past." --BookPage

"Crossers takes us through generations of Arizona history with understanding, intelligence and beautiful language. . . . [Caputo's] feet and eyes are upon these great lands, and from the beauty of his writing, it's clear his heart is, too." --Tucson Weekly

"[A] novel of reflection and adventure. . . . Caputo is a wonderful writer, and you come away from his stories the better for your time spent." --The Decatur Daily

"Caputo writes with authority about all aspects of his story, including the drug and immigrant smuggling trades, what it was like for a soldier in the Mexican Revolution, how the Mexican-American border was once a fluid boundary, and the details of ranching in contemporary times and a hundred years ago. Crossers provides an accurate portrait of the violence, greed, and desperation that has cropped up around the border for generations. . . . A nuanced, panoramic portrait of lives lived and lost on the Mexican-American border." --New West