The God of War: A Novel

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mary Coin, an indelible novel about the end of childhood, “the tender furies of adolescence, the starkly beautiful descriptions of California’s inland Salton Sea, and the devious valor of love” (Oprah Daily).

The year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age twelve, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton Sea, an unintentionally man-made body of water in the middle of the Southern California desert....