Winner of the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize, “No Place to Bury the Dead” by Karina Sainz Borgo is a searing novel of loss and resilience. This critically acclaimed book, featured in Publishers Weekly and the Los Angeles Times, illuminates the human dimension of the migrant crisis, reimagining the border as a purgatory. Follow Angustias Romero’s desperate journey in an unnamed Latin American country plagued by a memory-erasing plague. After a tragic loss, she finds refuge in Mezquite, a town filled with storytellers and gangs, where she seeks to lay her children to rest at the Third Country cemetery. This powerful narrative blends thriller, western, and tragedy, exploring desperation, redemption, and the blurred lines between life and death on a violent frontier. Discover why this urgent novel confirms Sainz Borgo’s place among modern Latin American literary voices.