LIGHT IN ROSADERO
Across the vast beauty of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, a young woman named Anna Tatevyan travels in search of her missing brother. On her lonely journey, Anna tries to help another woman in trouble, Mariazul Bautista, a woman whose encounter with Anna leads to her arrest by the Border Patrol, an arrest that turns out to be a kidnapping.
An anti-Western about the American origins of global violence, Light in Rosadero is a reckoning with the dark legacy of the frontier.
Fiction (Novel)
ISBN: 978-1-950730-71-1
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
Across the vast beauty of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, a young woman named Anna Tatevyan travels in search of her missing brother. On her lonely journey, Anna tries to help another woman in trouble, Mariazul Bautista, a woman whose encounter with Anna leads to her arrest by the Border Patrol, an arrest that turns out to be a kidnapping.
An anti-Western about the American origins of global violence, Light in Rosadero is a reckoning with the dark legacy of the frontier.
Fiction (Novel)
ISBN: 978-1-950730-71-1
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
Across the vast beauty of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, a young woman named Anna Tatevyan travels in search of her missing brother. On her lonely journey, Anna tries to help another woman in trouble, Mariazul Bautista, a woman whose encounter with Anna leads to her arrest by the Border Patrol, an arrest that turns out to be a kidnapping.
An anti-Western about the American origins of global violence, Light in Rosadero is a reckoning with the dark legacy of the frontier.
Fiction (Novel)
ISBN: 978-1-950730-71-1
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
About JAY KRISTENSEN JR.
Jay Kristensen Jr. was born and raised in Seattle. He has lived around the country and currently resides in Seattle. Light in Rosadero was published in 2021 and was nominated for the 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award and the 2022 Washington State Book Award. Queen Anne Cowboy is his second book.