Check out my review of Jonathan Hollingsworth’s new book, Left Behind: Life and Death on the U.S. Border (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2012) that appears on the Fraction Magazine site. In Left Behind, it’s interesting to see connections in Jonathan’s two books; this newest work as well as his first book, What We Think Now (self-published, 2006), both have to do with what it means to be/become American. In What We Think Now, this becoming plays out in time, with Hollingsworth giving stage to young Americans’ thoughts about the war through a generational lens. In Left Behind, this becoming transpires in physical space, with those who wish to be American (or, at least to partake of life here) crossing a physical border. —Mary Goodwin