Every once in a while a book comes along that reminds you why you love to read. Now I Surrender is one of those books. To read it is to take a journey into the past, into the bloody heart of the American "west," and witness an epic reclamation of narrative. It is both an elegy to a place and a treacherous confluence of people, and an atonement. Prepare to be awed; this is the wonder of fiction. I loved it.