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    Beasts of the Border

    May 01, 2019 3 minutes
    By Michael Schaub

    TEARS OF THE TRUFFLEPIG

    by Fernando A. Flores

    FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX

    $16; 336 PAGES

    IT’S THE NEAR FUTURE IN SOUTH TEXAS, AND THINGS HAVEN’T GOTTEN any better. A global food shortage has killed 20 percent of the world’s population and spawned riots in American cities. The legalization of drugs has failed to stop the bloodlust of cartels. The border wall that Donald Trump has dreamed about now exists — there are two walls, in fact, one on each side of the Rio Grande — but it hasn’t stemmed the flow follows a well-received book of short stories set in the Valley’s punk scene (). paints a terrifying portrait of a world where the greed of the 1 percent has turned the planet into a dystopia. It’s a bizarre fever dream of a book made all the more frightening by its eerie plausibility.

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