style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Philipp Meyer’s brilliant second novel, The Son, makes for ideal reading while the US Congress roils with conflicting immigration bills. Political tempers run high over how to deal with what, from one perspective, has been a steady, illegal takeover of whole swaths of American territory by largely Mexican Hispanics. But then, from a longer-ranged perspective, Mexicans have simply been organising a take-back. Having immersed himself in Texas lore, Meyer makes the case that it has always been thus: peoples have been stealing this land from one another beginning with its first inhabitants.
